Nginx - Customizing 404 page

Question

Nginx+PHP (on fastCGI) works great for me. When I enter a path to a PHP file which doesn\'t exist, instead of getting the default 404 error page (which comes for any invalid

Answer 1

These answers are no longer recommended since try_files works faster than if in this context. Simply add try_files in your php location block to test if the file exists, otherwise return a 404.

location ~ \.php {
    try_files $uri =404;
    ...
}