Hello!

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 03:44:42PM +0800, Mauro Stettler wrote:

> hi
>
> i wrote a module which is extracting certain values out of a session
> that is stored in memcache and stores it into a variable in my nginx
> config. so this seems to work fine so far.
>
> now i'm trying to compare $uri with one of these variables and do a
> rewrite accordingly. but it seems that the if that comes from nginx'
> rewrite module cannot only compare a variable with a static string or
> a static regex, but not with another variable.
>
> is that true?

Yes, regexps must be static. You may try something like this as a
workaround:

set $tmp "$var1:$var2";
if ($tmp ~* "^(.*):\1$") {
...
}

Maxim Dounin

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