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Clean URL for html & php with nginx lemp

Posted on December 21, 2015

I used the lemp install and cannot get a good answer to remove the extension .html or php of the url. Any help would be great :)



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Adding a location block to your Nginx configuration with a try_files directive like the one below will allow URLs without php or html extensions to work correctly:

	location / {
                try_files $uri $uri/ $uri.html $uri.php;
	}

For more information on how the try_files directive works, check out this tutorial:

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