Clean URLs working fine, pager, overlay and other queries not

Above the @rewrite lines is the following, already in place:

So, with no '@drupal' section in the vhosts file, what would @drupal refer to if I used it?

(Thanks)

EDIT:
I changed the @rewrite reference to @drupal, in case the @rewrite call was causing the problem. Doesn't seem to make a difference?

Thanks for the advice. I am not using that config specifically. I have more security features in place on the config I have (/backup, settings.php, code files etc. all denied)

I know your own config is very secure, but I wanted something simple and easy to maintain for a low-level sysadmin (me!). I see in your config you use Lua to solve the query problem. Is there no other way?

So far it works great for clean URLs, but I'm stuck on this query issue. Can you comment on the rewrite line in particular? I'll repaste the relevant section here:

The #commented out lines are just some tests I've run in the last day, trying to fix this. I'll delete them soon if I can get confirmation that they won't work in some other config.

Stabbing in the dark a bit, as you'll see.

Thanks, not sure if this counts as escaping, but I need the overlays in the format /url/#overlay[...] and
/url/page?=2 to work as planned. I tried your suggestion - top line of try_files is what it was, uncommented line is what I tried. Neither seemed to do the trick yet?

No luck yet, then. Appreciate any further thoughts. I presume nobody else has this problem with their configs, which makes me wonder what I've done wrong!

you stopped the paste too soon. Let it go until the end, i.e., returning something as reponse.

It seems something could be fishy there.

something is wrong in the PHP handling of your config, hence the 500.

Suggestion: Try my config and see how it goes. Start simple.

Appreciate the help, folks. I bit the bullet in the end and switched over to Perusio's config. It has taken me a while to get my head around the dependencies and the settings, but not half as long as it was taking to write my own 'simple' config.

Now the admin overlays and pagers are working as planned (half think it was in my fastcgi_params that I was missing something) and I'm back underway with development.

The next hurdle will be implementing ssl certs, but hopefully that won't be such a change as the Perusio config obviously is already set up to handle these.

So again, many thanks, and hope to be able to be of as much use to you or others one of these days.

worker_processes 1;

error_log logs/error.log;
pid logs/nginx.pid;

events {
# Max value 16384
worker_connections 8192;
# Accept multiple connections
multi_accept on;
}

Settings that affect all server blocks

http {
include php_processes.conf;
include mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;

access_log  logs/access.log;

sendfile on;

keepalive_timeout  65;
ssl_session_timeout 10m;
ssl_protocols TLSv1.2 TLSv1.1 TLSv1 SSLv3;
ssl_ciphers ECDH+AESGCM:DH+AESGCM:ECDH+AES256:DH+AES256:ECDH+AES128:DH+AES:ECDH+3DES:DH+3DES:RSA+AES:RSA+3DES:!ADH:!AECDH:!MD5:!DSS;
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
gzip  on;
# http server

Begin HTTP Server

server {
listen 80; # IPv4
server_name localhost;

## Parametrization using hostname of access and log filenames.
access_log logs/localhost_access.log;
error_log logs/localhost_error.log;

## Root and index files.
root html;
index  index.php index.html index.htm;

## If no favicon exists return a 204 (no content error).
location = /favicon.ico {
    try_files $uri =204;
    log_not_found off;
    access_log off;
}

## Don't log robots.txt requests.
location = /robots.txt {
    allow all;
    log_not_found off;
    access_log off;
}

location @rewrite {
    rewrite ^/(.*)$ drupal/index.php?q=$1;

}

## Try the requested URI as files before handling it to PHP.

location / {
try_files $uri /drupal/index.php?$query_string;

    ## Regular PHP processing.
    location ~ \.php$ {
        fastcgi_pass   php_processes;
        fastcgi_index  index.php;
        fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME    $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include        fastcgi_params;
    }

    ## Static files
    location ~* \.(?:css|gif|htc|ico|js|jpe?g|png|swf)$ {
    try_files $uri $uri/ @rewrite;
        expires max;
        log_not_found off;
        ## No need to bleed constant updates. Send the all shebang in one
        ## fell swoop.
        tcp_nodelay off;
        ## Set the OS file cache.
        open_file_cache max=1000 inactive=120s;
        open_file_cache_valid 45s;
        open_file_cache_min_uses 2;
        open_file_cache_errors off;
    }

    ## Keep a tab on the 'big' static files.
    location ~* ^.+\.(?:ogg|pdf|pptx?)$ {
        expires 30d;
        ## No need to bleed constant updates. Send the all shebang in one
        ## fell swoop.
        tcp_nodelay off;
    }
    } # / location

}

End HTTP Server

Begin HTTPS Server

server {
listen 443 http2 ssl;
server_name localhost;
ssl_certificate cert.pem;
ssl_certificate_key key.pem;
ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:10m;
ssl_session_timeout 10m;

## Parametrization using hostname of access and log filenames.
access_log logs/localhost_access.log;
error_log logs/localhost_error.log;

## Root and index files.
root html;
index  index.php index.html index.htm;

## If no favicon exists return a 204 (no content error).
location = /favicon.ico {
    try_files $uri =204;
    log_not_found off;
    access_log off;
}

## Don't log robots.txt requests.
location = /robots.txt {
    allow all;
    log_not_found off;
    access_log off;
}
location @rewrite {
    rewrite ^/(.*)$ drupal/index.php?q=$1;

}

## Try the requested URI as files before handling it to PHP.
location / {
try_files $uri /drupal/index.php?$query_string;

    ## Regular PHP processing.
    location ~ \.php$ {
        fastcgi_pass   php_processes;
        fastcgi_index  index.php;
        fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME    $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include        fastcgi_params;
    }

    ## Static files are served directly.
    location ~* \.(?:css|gif|htc|ico|js|jpe?g|png|swf)$ {
        expires max;
        log_not_found off;
        ## No need to bleed constant updates. Send the all shebang in one
        ## fell swoop.
        tcp_nodelay off;
        ## Set the OS file cache.
        open_file_cache max=1000 inactive=120s;
        open_file_cache_valid 45s;
        open_file_cache_min_uses 2;
        open_file_cache_errors off;
    }

    ## Keep a tab on the 'big' static files.
    location ~* ^.+\.(?:ogg|pdf|pptx?)$ {
        expires 30d;
        ## No need to bleed constant updates. Send the all shebang in one
        ## fell swoop.
        tcp_nodelay off;
    }
    } # / location

} # End HTTPS Server
}