I have installed on my server that hosts a magento store nginx with php-fpm and xcache.

The problem is that the home page loads fine but all links to categories and products return a 404 error. For example the

http://www.mydomain.com/category-name/category-url.html

returns a 404 error. If I enter the url with the index.php included as

http://www.mydomain.com/index.php/category-name/category-url.html

then the page loads fine.

I have searched everywhere for an answer to this problem and I cant find a solution for 3 days now. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I attach the configuration files.


############ my domain.com configuration file ########################
server {
listen 80;
server_name domain.com;
rewrite / $scheme://www.$host$request_uri permanent; ## Forcibly prepend a www
}

server {
listen 80 default;
## SSL directives might go here
server_name www.domain.com *.domain.com; ## Domain is here twice so server_name_in_redirect will favour the www
root /home/user/public_html/;

location / {
index index.html index.php; ## Allow a static html file to be shown first
try_files $uri $uri/ @handler; ## If missing pass the URI to Magento\\\'s front handler
expires 30d; ## Assume all files are cachable
}

## These locations would be hidden by .htaccess normally
location /app/ { deny all; }
location /includes/ { deny all; }
location /lib/ { deny all; }
location /media/downloadable/ { deny all; }
location /pkginfo/ { deny all; }
location /report/config.xml { deny all; }
location /var/ { deny all; }

location /var/export/ { ## Allow admins only to view export folder
auth_basic \\\"Restricted\\\"; ## Message shown in login window
auth_basic_user_file htpasswd; ## See /etc/nginx/htpassword
autoindex on;
}

location /. { ## Disable .htaccess and other hidden files
return 404;
}

location @handler { ## Magento uses a common front handler
rewrite / /index.php;
#rewrite ^ /index.php/$uri break;
}

location ~ .php/ { ## Forward paths like /js/index.php/x.js to relevant handler
rewrite ^(.*.php)/ $1 last;
}

location ~ .php$ { ## Execute PHP scripts
if (!-e $request_filename) { rewrite / /index.php last; } ## Catch 404s that try_files miss

expires off; ## Do not cache dynamic content
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
#fastcgi_param HTTPS $fastcgi_https;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /home/user/public_html/$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param MAGE_RUN_CODE default; ## Store code is defined in administration > Configuration > Manage Stores
fastcgi_param MAGE_RUN_TYPE store;
include fastcgi_params; ## See /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params
}

############ my fastcgi_params configuration file ########################
#fastcgi_split_path_info ^((?U).+\\\\.php)(/?.+)$;
#fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
#fastcgi_param PATH_TRANSLATED $document_root$fastcgi_path_info;

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_NAME $fastcgi_script_name;
#fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$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;

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_pass 127.0.0.1:9001;
#fastcgi_index index.php;