Hi,
Been searching and searching but I can't seem to figure this out.

How do I rewrite a URL containing the pipe (|) character? If I try to do it with just a plain pipe then it seems to treat it like a regex OR and match it anytime I hit a url with the text before the pipe, which is obviously not desired. I've also tried to escape the pipe in a traditional regex way, no dice. If I try with URL encoded (%7C) it doesn't match at all.

rewrite ^/some/path/with|some|parameters$ /some/other/path permanent; # => matches anytime the url starts with /some/path/with
rewrite ^/some/path/with\|some\|parameters$ /some/other/path permanent; # => matches anytime the url starts with /some/path/with
rewrite ^/some/path/with%7Csome%7Cparameters$ /some/other/path permanent; # => never matches

Seems like URLs are un-encoded before processing, so %7C will not work. But how do I properly escape the pipe to make this work?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/07/2014 01:31PM by aforty.

You know how it goes... as soon as you ask the question and think about it some more, the solution comes to you and you feel foolish for asking.

Here's how I did it:

rewrite ^/some/path/with[\|]some[\|]parameters$ /some/other/path permanent; # => matches ONLY /some/path/with|some|parameters


Cheers!