Nginx simulate multiviews in deep directorys

Question

I'm new in nginx, and I'm trying to configure nginx to rewrite deep directories to php with the name of the first directory in the url. For example:

http://domain.com/news/search/band/ -> news.php
http://domain.com/article/blue/300/?arg=10 -> article.php?arg=10
http://domain.com/xxx/yyy/zzz/ -> xxx.php

I tried with some regular expressions and with:

try_files $uri $uri/ @extensionless-php /index.php?$args =404;

But I haven't had success; could someone help me? Thank you

Answer 1

Replying to myself:

A lot of apache installations have multiviews enabled. You can do this, again, with the try_files directive:

location ~ ^(/.+)/ {
    try_files $uri $1?$args $1.php?$args;
}

Though it does not exactly do what Multiviews in Apache do, (like making it possible to omit the file extension), in PHP configurations it is 9 times out of ten you need the above behaviour, letting the PHP file handle all requests containing the filename and some slashes appended.