I ran into a similar problem. It would be nice to have the option to have the url passed in Nginx through the rewrite without encoding the url. In other words, have a decode flag inside the Nginx config file. I chose to solve my problem by decoding the url within php. I still use a rewrite as follows: rewrite ^/search/(.*) /index.php?cmd=search&terms=$1; And then in my search.php filby David Inga - How to...