title: Why is NGINX is ignoring my query strings?
body: <p>I recently switched from APACHE to NGINX. However, somewhere along the way NGINX started ignoring my query strings. For example, I use pagination like so:</p>
  
  <pre><code>http://example.com/index.php?page=5
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This simply loads <code>example.com</code> as if the query string wasn't there.</p>
  
  <p>Here's the configuration (<strong>edited as suggested by Nelson</strong>):</p>
  
  <p><strong>/etc/nginx/nginx.conf:</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>user www-data;
  worker_processes 4;
  pid /var/run/nginx.pid;
  
  events {
          worker_connections 768;
          # multi_accept on;
  }
  
  http {
  
      ##
      # Basic Settings
      ##
  
      sendfile on;
      tcp_nopush on;
      tcp_nodelay on;
      keepalive_timeout 65;
      types_hash_max_size 2048;
      # server_tokens off;
  
      # server_names_hash_bucket_size 64;
      # server_name_in_redirect off;
  
      include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
      default_type application/octet-stream;
  
      ##
      # Logging Settings
      ##
  
      access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
      error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
  
      ##
      # Gzip Settings
      ##
  
      gzip on;
      gzip_disable "msie6";
  
      # gzip_vary on;
  
      # gzip_vary on;
      # gzip_proxied any;
      # gzip_comp_level 6;
      # gzip_buffers 16 8k;
      # gzip_http_version 1.1;
      # gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;
  
      ##
      # nginx-naxsi config
      ##
      # Uncomment it if you installed nginx-naxsi
      ##
  
      #include /etc/nginx/naxsi_core.rules;
  
      ##
      # nginx-passenger config
      ##
      # Uncomment it if you installed nginx-passenger
      ##
  
      #passenger_root /usr;
      #passenger_ruby /usr/bin/ruby;
  
      ##
      # Virtual Host Configs
      ##
  
      include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
      include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
  }
  
  #mail {
  #       # See sample authentication script at:
  #       # http://wiki.nginx.org/ImapAuthenticateWithApachePhpScript
  #
  #       # auth_http localhost/auth.php;
  #       # pop3_capabilities "TOP" "USER";
  #       # imap_capabilities "IMAP4rev1" "UIDPLUS";
  #
  #       server {
  #               listen     localhost:110;
  #               protocol   pop3;
  #               proxy      on;
  #       }
  #
  #       server {
  #               listen     localhost:143;
  #               protocol   imap;
  #               proxy      on;
  #       }
  #}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>/etc/nginx/sites-available/default:</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>server {
          root    /usr/share/nginx/www/;
          index   index.php;
  
          # Make site accessible from http://localhost/
          server_name localhost;
  
          # Pass PHP scripts to PHP-FPM
          location ~ \.php {
                  include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
                  fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
          }
  
          client_max_body_size 8M;
  }
  </code></pre>