I have a basic Magento (PHP app, using index.php as the controller) setup on an Ubuntu server. I configured NGINX to use PHP-CGI to serve all PHP pages. While the site is working as expected, all the URLs are of the form:
http://domain.com/index.php/apparel/shoes.html

Is there a way to use the nginx rewrite setting so that I can have the URLs like this instead:
http://domain.com/apparel/shoes.html

Currently, this is what I have in the configuration file to handle page requests:

# catch rewritten and standard URLs
location ~* ^(/index.php)?(.*) {
    include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
    fastcgi_pass  127.0.0.1:9000;
    fastcgi_index index.php;
    fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  $document_root/index.php$1;
    fastcgi_read_timeout 600;
}

Teşekkürler.