How to set up downloading non-php files in nginx if all requests go to index.php?

Question

PHP

I have nginx installed, these are my local site settings

server {
  listen 80;

  root /home/varvoid/php_projects/p1.lo/public;
  index index.php index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;

  server_name p1.lo www.p1.lo;

  location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ @missing;
      }
    # Rewrite 404s back to PHP

    location @missing {
        rewrite ^ /index.php last;
    }



  # pass PHP scripts to FastCGI server
  
  location ~ \.php$ {

    include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
    fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
    
  }


}

configured so that all requests go to the front controller ( index.php ), but there is also a request to download favicon.ico, which is why my data is inserted into the database twice.
How to set up a site in nginx so that image files are downloaded, more precisely, so that there is an attempt to download the file and not redirect the request to index.php?

Answer 1

So you should not throw at index.php when you try to open an image.
You have a redirect only if the image does not exist, then check the availability of images at the address.