Full pathname not sent

Doc icantthinkofone at charter.net
Mon Mar 24 14:19:20 UTC 2014




On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Francis Daly wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 12:03:25PM -0400, Doc wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
>> This might be more of a regex problem on my part than nginx.
>
> Yes, it is.
>
>> I do a rewrite to pass the full pathname to thttpd like this:
>>
>> location ~ /radio/download/.*\.mp3$ {
>>     rewrite ^ /test/$1;
>> }
>
> What value do you want $1 to have?
>
> What does nginx (and pretty much every regex tool) think $1 is?
>
> You'll probably want () in there somewhere. Look for "capture" in
> the manual.
>
> Good luck with it,
>
> 	f
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> Francis Daly        francis at daoine.org
>
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Like a lot of people, I forget my regex bearings but I now have this 
working to an extent. I just need to think about this some more. As a 
sole developer, I have too many different things going on at the same 
time.



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