putting stupid search engine urls back

[Marcus Clyne]

AMP Admin wrote:
> Well, I coulndn't get that to work.  I'm not too good with regex stuff.
>
> Anyone wanna give me an assist on the following?
>
> I need 
> http://www.example.com/anyone-doing-late-ridei-t19640.html
>
> to go to
> http://www.example.com/showthread.php?t=19640
>   
server {
    server   example.com;


    location ~ ^.*-t([0-9]+).html$ {
       fastcgi_pass   ...;
       fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME  
/path/to/document/root/showthread.php?t=$1;
    }
}

Is one possibility.

If the document root changes, then you might want to use the 
$document_root variable like:

fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME  $document_root/showthread.php?t=$1;

but if you can put it in statically, it'll be slightly better 
performace-wise.

Note, the above regex assumes that all the articles have 
-t[thread_number] at the end.

Marcus.