I am really new to nginx and wanted to setup a rewrite but it allways fails for me. What I want is to rewrite file.php to page.php?page=file, but I only want this to occour if file.php dont exist. Can anyone help me with this?

I've tried a few rewrites myself but nothing works...

location ~ file\.php {
try_files $uri page.php?page=file;
}

Andrejs



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 10/19/2011 07:22AM by locojohn.

"file" is dynamic, not static as I assume your code is.

Sorry, I was too quick. Here's the fix:


location ~ (.*/)file\.php {
try_files $uri $1page.php?page=file;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_pass ...; # path to fastcgi interface (unix socket or IP)
}



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/19/2011 07:35AM by locojohn.

Thank you my friend. I got it working with this:

location ~ (.*/)([a-zA-Z0-9\_\-\.]+).php {
try_files $uri $1page.php?page=$2;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
}

Glad it worked. Just noticed a small thing about the "\.php" vs ".php" as "." means any character in PCRE:

location ~ (.*/)([a-zA-Z0-9\_\-\.]+)\.php {

Also, suggest to shorten it a bit for nicety:

location ~ (.*/)([\w\-\.]+)\.php {

Andrejs

Just noticed the query string isn't working. Is there a fix to this?

file.php?foo=bar should be page.php?page=file&foo=bar

But in my case, foo (the query string) isnt registered.

try_files $uri $1page.php?page=$2&$args;

Andrejs

Splendid. It worked.