Rewrite all directory URLs with certain exceptions

[Antonio P.P. Almeida]

> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Edho Arief <edho at myconan.net> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 7:11 PM, Cristian Rusu <crirus at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Excellent, it worked
>> >
>> > I have another urgent matter on a server live we just switched to
>> >
>> > I need that links like this:
>> > http://www.example.com/?v=JYH253CT
>> >
>> > to be rewritten as http://www.example.com/v.php?dl=JYH253CT
>> >
>> >
>> > Please help, server is down :(
>> >
>>
>> http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#variables
>>
>> Maybe something like this.
>>
>> location = / {
>>   if ($arg_v) {
>>     rewrite ^ /v.php?dl=$arg_v;
>>   }
>> }
>>
>
> I tried this from a htaccess to nginx converter
>
> if ($query_string ~ "^v=(.*)$"){
>     rewrite ^/index\.php$ /v.php?dl=$1 break;
> }

Try:

if ($arg_v) {
    rewrite ^ /v.php?dl=$arg_v break;
}

--appa