Hello!

On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 09:51:51AM -0500, drook wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Considering that I don't have symbolic links why do these configs work
> differently ?
>
> ===config one===
> if (!-f $request_filename) {
> rewrite ^/(.*)$ /init.php;
> }
> if (!-d $request_filename) {
> rewrite ^/(.*)$ /init.php;
> }
> ===config one===
>
> This one above works, rewrite happens.

This will rewrite all requests, since you have two independant
cases when a rewrite happens:

- rewrite if the requested resource is not a file;
- rewrite if the requested resource is not a directory;

Since no resource can be a file and a directory at the same time,
rewrite always happens. That is, this configuration will rewrite
anything, including requests to existing files and directories.

> Being changed to this it stops working, all other lines left intact:
> ===config two===
> if (!-e $request_filename) {
> rewrite ^/(.*)$ /init.php;
> }
> ===config two===

This will not rewrite resources which are either a file, or a
directory. Everything else will be rewritten. That is, this
configuration will not rewrite requests to existing files and
directories.

See here for more information on rewrite module directives and
their execution:

http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_rewrite_module.html

In particular, "rewrite_log on;" might be helpful if you want to
better understand what happens in your configuration.

--
Maxim Dounin
http://mdounin.ru/
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