Re-work Apache .htaccess to nginx configuration

Question

I'm trying rewrite my nginx to use http://domain.com/main instead of using http://domain.com/?page=main

I've done:

try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?page=$uri;

Returns blank page

rewrite ^/(\w+)$ /index.php?page=$1 break;
rewrite ^/(\w+)+\/$ /index.php?page=$1 break;
if ($http_host !~ "^$"){
   rewrite ^(.*)$ http%1://www.$http_host$request_uri redirect;
}

Generates the url: http://domain.com/main/http://domain.com/main/http://domain.com/main

Here is the Apache .htaccess:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(\w+)$ index.php?page=$1 [L,NC,QSA]
RewriteRule ^(\w+)+\/$ index.php?page=$1 [L,NC,QSA]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTPS}s ^on(s)|
RewriteRule ^ http%1://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

Answer 1

I am assuming that you have a working configuration for URIs of the form: http://domain.com/?page=main

The try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?page=$uri; may not work as expected as it will generate:

http://domain.com/?page=/main

Note the extra / . So you may need to use a rewrite to extract part of the URI not including the leading / . For example:

location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ @rewrite;
}
location @rewrite {
    rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?page=$1 last;
}
location \.php$ { ... }

Note the last suffix rather than the break suffix, as the target URI needs to be processed in another location. See this document for details.