NGINX configuration. PHP frameworks with PATHINFO 404 - frameworks

Question

I usually use apache and want to give NGINX a try.
I have installed it on my ubuntu dev machine and have a few different frameworks and sites set up and in development (codeigniter, symfony, laravel, etc).
The problem I'm getting is that only paths that end with .php work. If I try index.php/welcome/index it just 404s instead of loading index.php.
I have tried with cgi.fix_pathinfo set to 1 and 0.
Here is my current (of many tried) site config.
server {
listen 80; ## listen for ipv4; this line is default and implied
#listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on; ## listen for ipv6
root /my/path;
index index.php index.html;
# Make site accessible from http://localhost/
server_name localhost;
#error_page 404 /404.html;
# redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
#
#error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
#location = /50x.html {
# root /usr/share/nginx/www;
#}
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
# Fix for server variables that behave differently under nginx/php-fpm than typically expected
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
# Include the standard fastcgi_params file included with nginx
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
fastcgi_index index.php;
# Override the SCRIPT_FILENAME variable set by fastcgi_params
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
# Pass to upstream PHP-FPM; This must match whatever you name your upstream connection
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
}
location / {
# First attempt to serve request as file, then
# as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
# Uncomment to enable naxsi on this location
# include /etc/nginx/naxsi.rules
}
# deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
# concurs with nginx's one
#
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
}

Answer 1

I'd prefer to use the following nginx config structure. It's cleaner:
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ #phpsite;
}
location #phpsite {
include fastcgi_params;
... other fast_cgi directives
}
A bit more complex setup can be found in the popular silex project: http://silex.sensiolabs.org/doc/web_servers.html#nginx.
I see 2 problems in the original config file:
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
...
}
In regex '$' means matching at the end of the string. So it failed as stated in the comments by prodigitalson.
That try_files directive inside the above fast_cgi location block should not be there because that location block is supposed to be handled by php alone. It's cleaner to remove that line.

Answer 2

I think what you're missing is a rule like
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}
that will try to call that index.php url if the path does not exist.
Or maybe, if you know that it is pointless to try other things, just
location / {
try_files /index.php?$args;
}
or
location ~ /index.php {
try_files /index.php?$args;
}

Answer 3

This works for me...
location ~ ^(.*?\.php)($|/.+) {
try_files $1 =404;
... fastcgi conf...
}