I have the following server block:
server {
listen 80;
server_name petpal.co.il;
root /usr/share/nginx/petpal;
index index.php;
rewrite ^/([a-zA-Z]+)\-([0-9\-]+)$ /$1.php?page=$2? last;
rewrite ^/en/([a-zA-Z]+)\-([0-9\-]+)$ /en/$1.php?page=$2? last;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ @extensionless-php;
}
location @extensionless-php {
rewrite ^(.*)$ $1.php last;
}
set $lang "";
if ($uri ~ "^/en/") {set $lang "en/";}
error_page 404 /${lang}notfound;
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
client_max_body_size 4M;
fastcgi_read_timeout 300;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}
It already handles url rewriting (process petpal.co.il/dogs as dogs.php), however, I want to avoid people from reaching page.php so there won't be duplicated pages (same page named x and x.php), so all I want to do is adding a rule that will redirect people from page.php to page without .php OR at least showing a 404 not found page (what do you think is better?)
Hope I explained it well, any clues? Thanks!
I'm not sure if I fully understand your question but instead of writing a rule you could do the following.
Now if you go to petpal.co.il/dogs it will show petpal.co.il/dogs/index.php.
Users can still go to dogs/index.php but it isn't a duplicate page.
Hope it helps!