Question on rewriting ...

[Rakhesh Sasidharan]

>> So I modify the config to the following:
>>
>> ------8<-----------------------
>> location / {
>>      root        /net/store/www/data/wordpress;
>>      index       index.php;
>>
>>      if (!-e $request_filename) {
>>         rewrite ^/log/(.*)?$                    /index.php?q=$1 last;
>> 	rewrite ^/feed/(rss|rss2|atom|rdf)$     /?feed=$1       last;
>>         rewrite ^/feed/.+$                      /index.php      last;
>>      }
>> }
>> ------8<-----------------------

<snip>

>> The first two work as required.
>>
>> The third one seems to work sort of coz I get my blog page, but with a 404
>> error message from WordPress! So that leads me to think the URL is not
>> getting rewritten the way I want -- it is getting rewritten but for some
>> reason the "/feed/<whatever>" bit too is passed on to index.php. And this
>> is the cause for the 404 error.
>>
>> Any ideas why this is happening the way it is? Strangely enough, when I
>> modify the /feed/<whatever> rule to redirect to http://rakhesh.com/
>> instead of just rewrite, things work! So I figure I've got something wrong
>> in my understanding of these rewrite rules ...
>
> Try set
> error_log   /path/to/log  notice;
>
>     location / {
>          rewrite_log  on;
>          ...
>

Hi!

I  turned on the rewrite_log and this is what I see for a URL such as 
http://rakhesh.com/feed/asdaa (an incorrect URL):

--8<---
2007/09/05 12:22:43 [notice] 50842#0: *1 "^/feed/(rss|rss2|atom|rdf)/?$" 
does not match "/feed/asdaa", client: 212.72.24.148, server: rakhesh.com, 
URL: "/feed/asdaa", host: "rakhesh.com"
2007/09/05 12:22:43 [notice] 50842#0: *1 "^/feed.+$" matches 
"/feed/asdaa", client: 212.72.24.148, server: rakhesh.com, URL: 
"/feed/asdaa", host: "rakhesh.com"
2007/09/05 12:22:43 [notice] 50842#0: *1 rewritten data: "/index.php", 
args: "", client: 212.72.24.148, server: rakhesh.com, URL: "/feed/asdaa", 
host: "rakhesh.com"
--8<---

Even though the rewrite seems to happen, the blog sees the "/feed/asdaa" 
URL. Strange ...

Here's the logs when a correct URL http://rakhesh.com/feed/rss is given:

--8<---
2007/09/05 12:27:42 [notice] 50843#0: *38 "^/feed/(rss|rss2|atom|rdf)/?$" 
matches "/feed/rss", client: 212.72.24.148, server: rakhesh.com, URL: 
"/feed/rss", host: "rakhesh.com"
2007/09/05 12:27:42 [notice] 50843#0: *38 rewritten data: "/", args: 
"feed=rss", client: 212.72.24.148, server: rakhesh.com, URL: "/feed/rss", 
host: "rakhesh.com"
--8<---

It gets rewritten to / with the proper arguments "feed=rss" passed on!

Any ideas?

Regards,

 				- Rakhesh
                                 http://rakhesh.net/