For those who would want to use such a setup:

location ~ ^/imgheaders/(.*)$ {
root /vhosts/static/img/headers;
try_files /$1 @headers;
}

location @headers {
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/spawn-fcgi.sock;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /vhosts/test/ImageText.php;
include fastcgi_params;
}

> This worked great, but i had to change the request format to:
>
> http://test.dev/imgheaders/<img_hash>.png?<img_serialize>
>
> and the image if exists is in /vhosts/static/img/headers/<img_hash>.png
>
> Can You please update the location statement, because I can't get it
> right, thanks!
>
> --
> Best regards
> Tomasz Pajor
>
>
>> On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 11:14:17AM +0200, Tomasz Pajor wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I have a request:
>>>
>>> http://test.dev/imgheaders/<img_hash>/<img_serialize>
>>>
>>> What I want to achieve is, get from location <img_hash>, and check
>>> if file exists, if it exists then serve the file. if file not exists
>>> pass <img_serialize> to php fastcgi script and it will return the
>>> image.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions on how to achieve this?
>>>
>>
>> location ~ ^(/imgheaders/[^/]+)/[^/]$ {
>> root ...
>> try_files $1 @php;
>> }
>>
>> location @php {
>> ...
>> }
>>
>>
>>
>
>