Parsing Variables to access them in a custom module

[Vladimir Shebordaev]

2012/6/7 Prudhvi Krishna Surapaneni <me at prudhvi.net>:
> Hi All,
>        I am trying to write a module that needs to consume the regex matched
>        variables like $1 and $2 and pass them as values to the module.
>
>        Here is what i am trying to do
>
>        /* -- CONFIG -- */
>
>                        location ~ /foo/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/bar/([0-9]+) {
>                                my_module;
>                                my_module_first $1;
>                                my_module_second $2;
>                        }
>
>        /* -- CONFIG -- */
>
>        Inside my module i have defined them as follows.
>
>        /* -- CODE -- */
>
>                typedef stuct {
>                        ngx_str_t my_module_first;
>                        ngx_str_t my_module_second;
>                } ngx_http_my_module_loc_conf_t
>
>    /* -- CODE -- */
>
>        When trying to access the values from those variables i get the
>        value $1 and $2 instead of the substitution. What am i missing?.
>
>        Are these variables only availble for the rewrite module?.

Not particularly. But you should use the script engine to get captures
evaluated at run-time. See, e.g.  proxy module for an example.

>
> Thanks,
> Prudhvi Krishna Surapaneni.
>