Laravel with Nginx parameters are empty

Question

I just set up Nginx, and I'm trying to use it to host a Laravel app, but I ran into 2 problems.

1. For GET method, I always get an extra parameter in my inputs.
   • Using PostMan (Chrome) to do my testings, I set the destination URL and my desired parameters and send the request. The output that I get, it always includes the REQUEST_URI which it shouldn't. Example output:

.

Array (
  [/api/user] => // This shouldn't be here
  [test] => test
)

2. My parameters (the above) will NOT show for DELETE or PUT, at all, and for POST I'll only get the REQUEST_URI

Nginx vhost (Followed Setting up Laravel w/ Nginx)

server {
    server_name local.test.com;
    root /var/www/test/public;

    location / {
        index index.php index.html index.htm;
    }

    # serve static files directly
    location ~* \.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico|html)$ {
        access_log off;
        expires max;
    }

    # removes trailing slashes (prevents SEO duplicate content issues)
    if (!-d $request_filename) {
        rewrite ^/(.+)/$ /$1 permanent;
    }

    # unless the request is for a valid file (image, js, css, etc.), send to bootstrap
    if (!-e $request_filename) {
        rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 last;
        break;
    }

    # catch all
    error_page 404 /index.php;

    # The PHP Inclusion Block
    # include /etc/nginx/includes/php;
    location ~ \..*/.*\.php$ {
        # I'm pretty sure this stops people trying to traverse your site to get to other PHP files
        return 403;
    }

    #location ~ \.php$ {
    location ~ \.php(.*)$ {
        try_files $uri =404;
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
        fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
    }

# Deny Any Access to .htaccess Files That May Be Present (not usually in issue in Laravel)
# include /etc/nginx/includes/deny_htaccess;
location ~ /\.ht
{
    deny all;
}

    error_log  /var/www/logs/test-error.log;
}

fastcgi_params :

fastcgi_param   QUERY_STRING            $query_string;
fastcgi_param   REQUEST_METHOD          $request_method;
fastcgi_param   CONTENT_TYPE            $content_type;
fastcgi_param   CONTENT_LENGTH          $content_length;

fastcgi_param   SCRIPT_FILENAME         $request_filename;
fastcgi_param   SCRIPT_NAME             $fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param   REQUEST_URI             $request_uri;
fastcgi_param   DOCUMENT_URI            $document_uri;
fastcgi_param   DOCUMENT_ROOT           $document_root;
fastcgi_param   SERVER_PROTOCOL         $server_protocol;

fastcgi_param   GATEWAY_INTERFACE       CGI/1.1;
fastcgi_param   SERVER_SOFTWARE         nginx/$nginx_version;

fastcgi_param   REMOTE_ADDR             $remote_addr;
fastcgi_param   REMOTE_PORT             $remote_port;
fastcgi_param   SERVER_ADDR             $server_addr;
fastcgi_param   SERVER_PORT             $server_port;
fastcgi_param   SERVER_NAME             $server_name;

#fastcgi_param  HTTPS                   $https;

# PHP only, required if PHP was built with --enable-force-cgi-redirect
fastcgi_param   REDIRECT_STATUS         200;

fastcgi_connect_timeout                 60;
fastcgi_send_timeout                    180;
fastcgi_read_timeout                    180;
fastcgi_buffer_size                     128k;
fastcgi_buffers 4                       256k;
fastcgi_busy_buffers_size               256k;
fastcgi_temp_file_write_size            256k;
fastcgi_intercept_errors                on;

nginx.conf Has only 1 thing changed, and that is keepalive_timeout from 65 to 15

So I absolutely have no clue, where all this thing goes wrong. But I do have to mention, that on another 2 environments that I have (One with Lighttpd and the other with Apache2) the app works perfectly.

From what I've noticed, its all reduced to the following code:

# unless the request is for a valid file (image, js, css, etc.), send to bootstrap
if (!-e $request_filename) {
    rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 last;
    break;
}

Which will make the GET work... and add the additional parameter

Answer 1

It is best to avoid unneccessary rewrites in your nginx configuration (See Nginx Pitfalls), one in particular is the one responsible for passing the request to the Laravel front controller:

All you need for Laravel is:

location / {
    index index.php index.html index.htm;
    try_files $uri $uri/ index.php?$query_string;
}

First that tries to access a file directly, then a directory, and if neither exists it passes the request to index.php. $query_string is important to pass along as that will contain the $_GET data that otherwise gets lost.

And here is my own FastCGI configuration piece:

location ~ \.php$ {
    fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
    fastcgi_index  index.php;
    fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME    $document_root/$fastcgi_script_name;
    include        fastcgi_params;
}

As for unexpected input, it could be the way your current rewrite works, but to say for sure, what are you outputting?