Nginx Removing .php and .html/.htm extensions?

Hello,

So I am wanting to clean up my URLs to my forum by removing the .php and .html/.htm extensions. I checked out Stack Overflow and found the best way to do so for an Nginx setup is to append the following /usr/local/nginx/conf/conf.d/mydomain.com.conf and include:

Code:

server {
index index.html index.php;
location /{
try_files $uri $uri/ $uri.html $uri.php?$query_string;}
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;# add fastcgi_pass line here, depending if you use socket or port}}

However, I know the config file is setup differently to an extent and I don't want to mess anything up. How can I go about properly doing this?

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Thanks!