By broodforge
Greetings to all,
First I would like to thank DigitalOcean for their excellent tutorials and How-To’s and to all kind members supplying really excellent stuff. Information found here is a true gem!
Now I have a problem with webserver nginx and I don’t know how to solve if directories does not contain index.php. I get 403 error!
For example lets say I have folder structure as follows:
/contact/ (folder)
- contact.php
/about/ (folder)
- about.php
Do I have to rename the files to index.php or can it be solved in any other way?
Cheers to all in the ocean!
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By default, if you go to a directory’s url, only the index file be shown. This is configured by this setting in your Nginx configuration,
index index.php index.html index.htm;
That said, your solution is generally how it is handled for a non-standard directory:
location = /contact/ {
rewrite ^(.*)$ /contact/contact.php;
}
Thanks for following up and sharing your solution!
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