Nginx WordPress and another Web app URL structure

Question

I have got WordPress installed on my root example.com/ Website.

Also I have another Web application that on example.com/my-app/ which has got ugly links like example.com/my-app/file.php?arg=value to access.

How can I make my-app SEO friendly URI structure working as example below?:

example.com/my-app/file.php?arg=value
to
example.com/my-app/value/

Currently, if I access to example.com/my-app/value/ it redirects me to my WordPress post which contains some characters of the /value/. Why? Is there anyway to get this working?

My Nginx directives for domain are listed below:

location / {
  try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
  fastcgi_read_timeout 300;
}

location ~ \.php$ {
    include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
    fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
    fastcgi_index index.php;
    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
}

Any ideas? Should I use Ajax navigation, with switch cases? What about HTML5 pushState() API? Any working examples?

Thanks for help!

Answer 1

You should try the Rewrite plugin as mentioned in this post "Nginx rewrite rule conflict with WordPress permalinks rule", it could help solve the issue. If not, we'll have to dig deeper, let me know.