Redirecting nginx to index.php - redirect

Question

I have nginx on a Raspberry Pi. In /etc/nginx/sites-available/default, I replaced server{} with the following, and I can access /var/www/html/index.php using http://192.168.1.210/.
server {
listen 80;
server_name $domain_name;
root /var/www/html/;
index index.html index.htm;
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
location ~\.php$ {
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.*)$;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param HTTPS off;
try_files $uri =404;
include fastcgi_params;
# if (!-e $request_filename){ rewrite ^(.*)$ /index.php break; }
}
}
I now wish to add some simple redirecting similar to Apache's
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
I added if (!-e $request_filename){ rewrite ^(.*)$ /index.php break; at the end (see the above commented out line) and placed http://192.168.1.210/page2 in the browser, however, the script still doesn't redirect to /var/www/html/index.php
How can I redirect any non-existing requests to index.php?

Answer 1

What you are trying to accomplish is to redirect files and directories that do not exist towards index.php?
This can be done by using:
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;
Or which makes more sense:
error_page 404 /index.php;
This will also redirect missing files, images, ...