Nginx rewrite rule for CodeIgniter

You can add this to your config:

location ~* ^/(assets|files|robots\.txt) { }

This will work correctly with your location / rule.

Your config also need to add root document and default index file.

...root /ftp/wardrobe;index index.php index.html index.htm;location / {    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?/$request_uri;}location ~* ^/(assets|files|robots\.txt) { }...

You want to do this instead:

if ($request_uri !~ ^/(index\.php|assets|files|robots\.txt)) {    rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php/$1 last;}

$request_uri is for the original URI request by the client. If you want the URI request AFTER other Nginx rewrite rules have processed it then you would use $uri. However, for what you are trying to do the prior would be the one you would want.

Also, you need to escape special regular expression characters like . by using a backslash.

Please try this. It works for me.

server {    server_name domain.tld;    root /var/www/codeignitor;    index index.html index.php;    # set expiration of assets to MAX for caching    location ~* \.(ico|css|js|gif|jpe?g|png)(\?[0-9]+)?$ {        expires max;        log_not_found off;    }    location / {        # Check if a file or directory index file exists, else route it to index.php.        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;    }    location ~ \.php$ {        try_files $uri =404;        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;        fastcgi_index index.php;        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;        include fastcgi_params;    }}