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How do I enable clean URLs with Nginx for Drupal?

Posted on March 26, 2015

I’m using the Lemp, how do I enable clean URLs with Nginx for Drupal?

Thanks for your help



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@MatthewTV This worked perfectly for me, thanks!

You have to edit your Nginx server configuration file. It should look like the example below.

server {
     listen       80;
     server_name  example.org;

     location / {
         root   /path/to/drupal;
         index  index.php;
         error_page 404 = @drupal;
     }

     location @drupal {
         rewrite ^(.*)$ /index.php?q=$1 last;
     }
 }

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