I'm trying to setup a friendly URL for a website running on my Nginx server but for some reason, the url's are being redirected instead of being rewritten.
For instance If a user visits mydomain.com/aboutme/ I want mydomain.com/aboutme/ to stay in the address bar, but for the content to be pulled from mydomain.com/aboutme.php
In my Nginx site configuration I have the following (a simple example with some stuff chopped out for simplicities sake):
server {
listen 1.2.3.4:80;
server_name www.mydomain.com;
location / {
rewrite ^/aboutus/$ http://www.mydomain.com/aboutus.php permanent;
}
}
For whatever reason, Nginx seems to insist on redirecting the 'friendly' url to the php file, but I want a more traditional "rewrite" (like I've done before in Apache mod_rewrite without issue).
I'm probably doing something wrong, but I'll be damned if I can work out what.