Redirect does not work on nginx

Question

I'm migrating an old site to Drupal (using migrate module), and I've managed directly in code all old urls to redirect to new Drupal urls using redirect module, for example:

www.mysite.com/UserProfile.php?user=5

Redirects to:

www.mysite.com/it/community/peoples/mr-max

This works very fine on my dev environment with apache, but doesn't works on live environment with nginx.

At first try with old url, I received a blank page with the message "No input file specified."

So I've changed virtual host conf from:

location ~ \.php$ {
  #fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
  #NOTE: You should have "cgi.fix_pathinfo = 0;" in php.ini
  include fastcgi_params;
  fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;
  fastcgi_pass php-fpm;
}

to:

location ~ \.php$ {
  #fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
  #NOTE: You should have "cgi.fix_pathinfo = 0;" in php.ini
  include fastcgi_params;
  fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME index.php;
  fastcgi_pass php-fpm;
}

RESULT: no more "No input file specified." blank page, but redirect doesn't works and my front page is shown for all old urls.

Here's other settings from my virtual host, if can help:

location ~ \..*/.*\.php$ {
  return 403;
}
location ~ ^/sites/.*/private/ {
  return 403;
}
location ~ (^|/)\. {
  return 403;
}
location / {
  try_files $uri @drupal;
}
location @drupal {
  # For D7 and above:
  # Clean URLs are handled in drupal_environment_initialize().
  rewrite ^ /index.php;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
  #fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
  #NOTE: You should have "cgi.fix_pathinfo = 0;" in php.ini
  include fastcgi_params;
  fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME index.php;
  fastcgi_pass php-fpm;
}

What kind of setting I have to change/add to the above conf to make redirect working correctly?

Answer 1

Finally, someone redirected me to the right place

Here's the missing code that does the trick:

location ~ \.php$ {
            error_page 418 = @rewrite;
            recursive_error_pages on;

            fastcgi_split_path_info ^[^=](.+\.php)(/.+)$;
            include fastcgi_params;

            if ( $uri = /index.php ) {
                    break;
            }

            if ( !-e $document_root$fastcgi_script_name) {
                    return 418;
            }

            #NOTE: You should have "cgi.fix_pathinfo = 0;" in php.ini
            fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
            fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
            fastcgi_read_timeout 240;
            fastcgi_pass  127.0.0.1:9000;
}

Source: http://wiki.nginx.org/Drupal

(link suggested in https://groups.drupal.org/node/405038)

Answer 2

I got a similar problem : migrating old site with php extension in Urls, and using Redirect module to preserve SEO, nginx returned "File not found".

The above solution did not work for my config. Instead that one did the trick :

location ~ \.php$|^/update.php {
    #old urls with php extension redirect
    if ($request_uri ~ .*.php.*) {
      error_page 404 =  @rewrite;
    }

    fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+?\.php)(|/.*)$;
    fastcgi_index index.php;
    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;
    fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
    fastcgi_read_timeout 60;
    include fastcgi_params;
    fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
}