remove .php from url with rewrite rule

Question

I want to rewrite the url in nginx so that the .php extension can be omitted.

This is what I have, but this isn\'t working for me. Anyone any idea how to do

Answer 1

Spent a while trying to get this to work properly. Both php files and other assets working:

location / {

    if (!-e $request_filename){
        rewrite ^(.*)$ /$1.php;
    }
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}