I'm trying to get Nginx to handle php files without an extension (i.e. to handle <http://localhost/sample> the same way it would handle <http://localhost/sample.php>).

This is my site configuration:

```
server {
    listen 80 default_server;
    listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;

    server_name localhost;

    root /var/www;
    index index.html index.php;

    location ~ \.(hh|php)$ {
        fastcgi_keep_conn on;
        fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include fastcgi_params;
    }

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ $uri.html @extensionless =404;
    }

    location @extensionless {
        rewrite ^(.*)$ $1.php last;
    }
}

```

As far as I know it should do the trick. However - it doesn't. Trying <http://localhost/sample> just gets me to a 404 page (whereas <http://localhost/sample.php> works fine).

When turning on debugging, I see the following in the logs:

```
2015/07/19 15:37:00 [debug] 4783#0: *1 http script var: "/sample"
2015/07/19 15:37:00 [debug] 4783#0: *1 trying to use file: "/sample" "/var/www/sample"
2015/07/19 15:37:00 [debug] 4783#0: *1 http script var: "/sample"
2015/07/19 15:37:00 [debug] 4783#0: *1 trying to use dir: "/sample" "/var/www/sample"
2015/07/19 15:37:00 [debug] 4783#0: *1 http script var: "/sample"
2015/07/19 15:37:00 [debug] 4783#0: *1 http script copy: ".html"
2015/07/19 15:37:00 [debug] 4783#0: *1 trying to use file: "/sample.html" "/var/www/sample.html"
2015/07/19 15:37:00 [debug] 4783#0: *1 trying to use file: "@extensionless" "/var/www@extensionless"
2015/07/19 15:37:00 [debug] 4783#0: *1 trying to use file: "=404" "/var/www=404"

```

Which is weird. It basically looks like @extensionless is treated as a plain filename (instead of a location leading to a rewrite of the URL).

What am I missing? :)
Thanks!