How to make the URL different from the path of the php file (Nginx)-CodePudding

I was wondering how I can make the URL of my website different from the path of the file in my website directory.

For example, let's say I want my website language to be in the URL (mywebsite/en/index.php) but I don't want to manually have to create each php file in my website directory containing just an include from my main files, how could I do that please? I'm using Nginx if needed

CodePudding user response：

You can use nginx rewrite regex rules. Nginx rewrite rules

Let's say you want the url below to hit index.php with the language code.

Url: https://yourwebsite.com/en/index.php
FilePath: /path/to/www/index.php

rewrite ^/(.*)/index.php$ /index.php?lang=$1 last;

# another example
# $1 is the matching characters in regex `(.*)`
rewrite ^/sales/(.*)/categories.php$ /some/path/cat.php?categories=$1 last;

Do not forget. All URL's are imaginary but all files are real. URLs do not need to match the real files. URL: https://yourwebsite.com/index.php may hit /some.file.asp

Look at the official nginx documentation for more details.

Hope, it helps.