I'm going crazy with this since I can't get it working in any way...

I have a subdomain on a server, let's call it images.site1.com, dedicated to serve images. Due to some bandwidth limitation i got a more capable server so the webpages will remain on site1.com but the images will be moved to images.site2.com

Since I had to change the names of images folders on the new server now I need to rewrite the urls in order to fit my needs. Only the webserver on site1.com runs NginX, so i need to do rewrite the original ruls following a regular expression (regex) and do something like:

http://images.site1.com/oldfolderjpg/123456_1.jpg
--rewrite-->
http://images.site2.com/newfolderjpg/12/34/new_images/123456/123456_image_1_large.jpg

- The first and most logic rewrite scheme I tought about is:
[code]
rewrite ^/oldfolder/([0-9][0-9])([0-9][0-9])([0-9][0-9])_([0-9]).jpg$ http://images.site2.com/newfolder/$1/$2/new_images/$1$2$3/$1$2$3_image_$4_large.jpg permanent;
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But it didn't work (I really don't know why)

- The second way I tried out is:
[code]
location /oldfolder/([0-9][0-9])([0-9][0-9])([0-9][0-9])_([0-9]).jpg$ {
rewrite ^ http://images.site2.com/newfolder/$1/$2/new_images/$1$2$3/$1$2$3_image_$4_large.jpg permanent;
}
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And it didn't work either...

I tried this config too:
[code]
location ~ oldfolder/ {
rewrite ^([0-9][0-9])([0-9][0-9])([0-9][0-9])_([0-9]).jpg$ http://images.site2.com/newfolder/$1/$2/new_images/$1$2$3/$1$2$3_image_$4_large.jpg permanent;
}
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But with no luck...

After that I tried an old config cheme i used for another site (on the same box) for a cdn config:
[code]
location ~ /oldfolder/([0-9][0-9])([0-9][0-9])([0-9][0-9])_([0-9]).jpg {
rewrite ^/(.*)$ $scheme://images.site2.com/newfolder/$1/$2/new_images/$1$2$3/$1$2$3_image_$4_large.jpg;
}
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I've been triying in several ways but nginx keeps ignoring my rewrite scheme redirecting to my default error image located at images.site1.com/error.jpg

Can anyone help me with this?

I'll write down my subdomain server config for your facility:
[code]
## images.site1.com ##

server {
listen 80;
server_name images.site1.com;
error_page 404 http://images.site1.com/error.jpg;
root /home/sites/site1.com/images;
}
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It's a very basic server config, that's why I can't understand why nginx doesn't rewrite the images following such scheme...



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/26/2011 03:15PM by sevy.