Nginx sites-available doesn't work

Question

I've got this really simple server block under sites-available.

Problem: When I try to access to mydomain.com, Nginx returns a « 404 Not Found », but if I try to access to a file in particular, it works fine, like mydomain.com/index.php

server {

    listen          80;
    index           index.php;
    server_name     mydomain.com;
    root            /home/myusername/sites/mydomain.com/htdocs;

    access_log      /home/myusername/sites/mydomain.com/logs/access.log;
    error_log       /home/myusername/sites/mydomain.com/logs/error.log;

    location / {
            try_files $uri =404;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
            fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
            fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
            fastcgi_index index.php;
            include fastcgi_params;
    }

}

Note that:

• my hosts file is configured ;
• I restart Nginx after each edit ;
• the access rights, user and group are correct ;
• the error.log file is empty, the access.log returns me all the 404 ;
• I tried to change the config by adding/removing some lines, still no changes ;
• the site is enabled in sites-enabled with a correct symlink (I tried to edit it and it opened the right file) ;
• I've got a few sites on the same server who runs well (so the including of sites-available and sites-enabled is OK, and Nginx works fine).

Answer 1

So, the answer was giver to me on ServerFault by Alexey Ten, here is a copy of the answer

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Your try_files directive is too restrictive and, I guess, is in wrong place.

Either remove location / completely, it doesn't makes much sense, or, at least add $uri/ so index directive will work.

try_files $uri $uri/ =404;

But my guess is, you need to move this try_files into location ~ \.php$, this will make sure that php-file exsists before pass it to PHP-FPM for processing. All other files will be served by nginx with proper use of index directive.

server {
    listen          80;
    index           index.php;
    server_name     mydomain.com;
    root            /home/myusername/sites/mydomain.com/htdocs;

    access_log      /home/myusername/sites/mydomain.com/logs/access.log;
    error_log       /home/myusername/sites/mydomain.com/logs/error.log;

    location ~ \.php$ {
            try_files $uri =404;
            fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
            fastcgi_index index.php;
            include fastcgi_params;
    }
}