Greetings,

just migrating my sites over from Apache to nginx and the speed difference is actually very noticeable even no a low volume server!

My problem is that in Apache I used a PHP trick to capture variables and values from an URI which I then fed to the database.

The trick was

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//This only works with apache module.
$HTTP_TEMP_PATH_VARS = explode("/",$PATH_INFO);

array_shift($HTTP_TEMP_PATH_VARS);
reset($HTTP_TEMP_PATH_VARS);

$HTTP_PATH_VARS = array();

while( list($index,$key) = each($HTTP_TEMP_PATH_VARS) ) {
list($index,$val) = each($HTTP_TEMP_PATH_VARS);
$HTTP_PATH_VARS[$key] = $val;
$$key = $val;
}
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My attempt at this is to make this rewrite:
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if ($uri ~ "^(dagbok.php)(/.+)")
{
rewrite "/dagbok.php/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)$" /dagbok.php?ar=$2&man=$4&dag=$6 last;

}
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The URI looks like this:

http:///my.website.com/file.php/var1/value1/var2/value2/var3/value3
and I need it interpreted into
http://my.website.com/file.php?var1=value1&var2=value2&var3=value3

I've trawled through the limited examples I've found and tried several versions but so far not been able to find a way for this to work.

I was using the exact same trick and cannot figure out how to implement it with nginx.
I expected the trick to work out-of-the-box, as it does with apache and lighty, since it's related to php rather than the webserver
Right now it's a showstopper for me in migrating a large literature website to nginx, which works incredibly fast for the pages that don't rely on the trick .

Anyone has any clue on how this could be done? Slalfur, did you manage to find a solution?
Could you point me to what you've found on the topic?

MANY thanks!

solved it thanks to this: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?11,4041,4192#msg-4192



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/01/2009 04:10PM by radoo.