Lumen/Laravel URL parameters not parsing anymore solution for NGINX users

Just dropping this here in case anyone is using LEMP, specifically Laravel and NGINX, and have recently migrated their config to another server as well as a new NGINX server.

On our migration, we encountered an issue where Lumen no longer parsed our URL parameters (query params?) and frustratingly nothing seemed to work:

$request->all() -> []

$request->input('paramname') -> null

$request->has('paramname') -> false

Solution

We found our NGINX config had this line, which were one of the lines that differed from our original config:

try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string index.html;

Changing it to magically makes everything work:

try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;

For some reason the extra index.html makes it not work anymore.

Cheers