Magento URL Rewrite issues

hi, im currently in the process of moving my magento store from apache based server to nginx LEMP stack (Cent OS 7 with Centmin mod + Nginx 1.9.3 + MariaDB 10.0.21), and while the move has been ok, im having a lot of problems solving the url rewrites issues in nginx vhost conf file of my domain. Here is my current conf. file details

Code:

# Centmin Mod Getting Started Guide
# must read http://centminmod.com/getstarted.html

# redirect from non-www to www
# uncomment, save file and restart Nginx to enable
# if unsure use return 302 before using return 301
#server {
#            listen   80;
#            listen   443 ssl;
#            server_name www.domain.net;
#            return 301 $scheme://www.domain.net$request_uri;
#       }

server {
  listen 80;
  server_name domain.net;


# ngx_pagespeed & ngx_pagespeed handler
#include /usr/local/nginx/conf/pagespeed.conf;
#include /usr/local/nginx/conf/pagespeedhandler.conf;
#include /usr/local/nginx/conf/pagespeedstatslog.conf;

  # limit_conn limit_per_ip 16;
  # ssi  on;

  access_log /home/nginx/domains/domain.net/log/access.log combined buffer=256k flush=60m;
  error_log /home/nginx/domains/domain.net/log/error.log;

  root /home/nginx/domains/domain.net/public;

  # prevent access to ./directories and files
  location ~ (?:^|/)\. {
   deny all;
  } 

  location / {

# block common exploits, sql injections etc
#include /usr/local/nginx/conf/block.conf;

  # Enables directory listings when index file not found
  #autoindex  on;

  # Shows file listing times as local time
  #autoindex_localtime on;

  # Enable for vBulletin usage WITHOUT vbSEO installed
  # More example Nginx vhost configurations at
  # http://centminmod.com/nginx_configure.html
  try_files        $uri $uri/ @handler;
  index index.php;
  expires 30d;

  }

  location @handler {
  rewrite / /index.php;
  }

location ~ .php/ {
   rewrite ^(.*.php)/ $1 last;
}

location ~ .php$ {
#if(!-e $request_filename) {
#  rewrite / /index.php last;
#}

expires  off;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_param HTTPS $fastcgi_https;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param MAGE_RUN_CODE default;
fastcgi_param MAGE_RUN_TYPE store;
include fastcgi_params;

# location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico)$ {
# expires 1d;
# log_not_found off;
}

}

# include /usr/local/nginx/conf/staticfiles.conf;
# include /usr/local/nginx/conf/php.conf;
# include /usr/local/nginx/conf/drop.conf;
  #include /usr/local/nginx/conf/errorpage.conf;
# include /usr/local/nginx/conf/vts_server.conf;

Following is my nginx conf. details

---

Code:

user              nginx nginx;
worker_processes 3;
worker_priority -10;

worker_rlimit_nofile 260000;
timer_resolution 100ms;

pcre_jit on;

pid         logs/nginx.pid;

events {
    worker_connections  4096;
    accept_mutex on;
    accept_mutex_delay 200ms;
    use epoll;
    #multi_accept on;
}

http {
limit_req_zone $binary_remote_addr zone=xwplogin:16m rate=40r/m;
#limit_conn_zone $binary_remote_addr zone=xwpconlimit:16m;

more_set_headers "Server: nginx centminmod";

include /usr/local/nginx/conf/vts_http.conf;
include /usr/local/nginx/conf/geoip.conf;
include /usr/local/nginx/conf/pagespeedadmin.conf;
include /usr/local/nginx/conf/fastcgi_param_https_map.conf;

log_format      main    '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] $request '
                '"$status" $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
                '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for" "$gzip_ratio"'
                ' "$connection" "$connection_requests" "$request_time"';

map $scheme $fastcgi_https {
default off;
https on;
}

access_log  logs/access.log combined buffer=128k flush=5m;
error_log   logs/error.log warn;

    index  index.php index.html index.htm;
    include       mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;
    charset utf-8;

        sendfile on;
        sendfile_max_chunk 512k;
        tcp_nopush  on;
        tcp_nodelay on;
        server_tokens off;
        server_name_in_redirect off;
      
        keepalive_timeout  8;
        keepalive_requests 1000;
        lingering_time 20s;
        lingering_timeout 5s;
        keepalive_disable msie6;

    gzip on;
    gzip_vary   on;
    gzip_disable "MSIE [1-6]\.";
        gzip_static on;
        gzip_min_length   1400;
        gzip_buffers      32 8k;
        gzip_http_version 1.0;
        gzip_comp_level 5;
        gzip_proxied    any;
        gzip_types text/plain text/css text/xml application/javascript application/x-javascript application/xml application/xml+rss application/ecmascript application/json image/svg+xml;

client_body_buffer_size 256k;
client_body_in_file_only off;
client_body_timeout 10s;
client_header_buffer_size 64k;
## how long a connection has to complete sending
## it's headers for request to be processed
client_header_timeout  8s;
client_max_body_size 50m;
connection_pool_size  512;
directio  4m;
ignore_invalid_headers on;     
large_client_header_buffers 8 64k;
output_buffers   8 256k;
postpone_output  1460;
proxy_temp_path  /tmp/nginx_proxy/;
request_pool_size  32k;
reset_timedout_connection on;
send_timeout     15s;
types_hash_max_size 2048;
server_names_hash_bucket_size 64;

# for nginx proxy backends to prevent redirects to backend port
# port_in_redirect off;

open_file_cache max=50000 inactive=60s;
open_file_cache_valid 120s;
open_file_cache_min_uses 2;
open_file_cache_errors off;
open_log_file_cache max=10000 inactive=30s min_uses=2;

## limit number of concurrency connections per ip to 16
## add to your server {} section the next line
## limit_conn limit_per_ip 16;
## uncomment below line allows 500K sessions
# limit_conn_log_level error;
#######################################
# use limit_zone for Nginx <v1.1.7 and lower
# limit_zone $binary_remote_addr zone=limit_per_ip:16m;
#######################################
# use limit_conn_zone for Nginx >v1.1.8 and higher
# limit_conn_zone $binary_remote_addr zone=limit_per_ip:16m;
#######################################

include /usr/local/nginx/conf/conf.d/*.conf;
}

The problem is all magento url's are ending with index.php which is throwing a 404 error of nginx. Ive searched and searched on various forums for a fix and tried almost anything that i could find to fix this issue but have been unsuccessful as yet. If i turn off the Web Server Rewrites in Magento then all url's work fine but that hurts SEO and i want it to be enabled.

Here are some of the error logs from my domain and nginx.

Domain error log

Code:

/home/nginx/domains/domain.net/public/hp-2311gt-23-3d-lcd-monitor-with-2-free-3d-glasses/[B]index.php[/B]" is not found (2: No such file or directory), client: 66.249.78.24, server: domain.net, request: "GET /hp-2311gt-23-3d-lcd-monitor-with-2-free-3d-glasses/ HTTP/1.1", host: "www.domain.net"

Nginx error log

Code:

2015/12/15 10:08:14 [error] 6809#6809: OCSP_basic_verify() failed (SSL: error:27069065:OCSP routines:OCSP_basic_verify:certificate verify error:Verify error:unable to get local issuer certificate) while requesting certificate status, responder: ocsp.godaddy.com
2015/12/15 10:09:07 [info] 7325#7325: [ngx_pagespeed 1.9.32.6-7321] No threading detected. Own threads: 1 Rewrite, 1 Expensive Rewrite.

Thank you and hope someone comes up with a solution to this issue.

 

thank you for the quick reply. will do these changes and report back whether they work or not