How to configurate nginx to redirect all responses to .php files to redirect on 404?

Question

I'm using Ruby on Rails and so

How to configurate nginx to redirect all responses to .php files to redirect on 404?

Answer 1

I don't quite understand the question (same as @dev0). If you want to send the user a 404 response when they try to access a php file, then put in a location block that will grab any php file and then do a simple return 404; statement in it.

location ~* ^.+\.php {
    return 404;
}

However, you'll need to do something different if you want to redirect a user to a specified PHP page when the user hits a 404 error. Is that it? And, if so, do you want to send them to one PHP page or a contextual PHP page? And do you want to pass arguments?

If you want to use a PHP page as a 404, then you can add the following to the main server block :

error_page   404 = /my_custom_404_page.php;