rewrite assistance

[Francis Daly]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 11:42:38PM -0500, daveyfx wrote:

Hi there,

> > location = /preview.php {
> >   rewrite ^ /? permanent;
> > }

> Spot on.  That seems to have done the trick.  Out of my own desire to
> learn, is there a way to do the same thing without using the location
> directive, and just merely using a rewrite statement?

Yes.

The manual says

"""
syntax: rewrite regex replacement flag
default: none
context: server, location, if 
"""

The location{} block just says "only try this for some urls".

Within the server{} block, it would be "try this for all urls", and only
urls that match the regex would be rewritten.

So: the "rewrite" line that was almost working for you, with the extra
bit on the replacement part to suppress adding the query string, should
be what you want.

Good luck,

	f
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Francis Daly        francis at daoine.org