Request for a "no capture" rewrite directive enhancement

[Igor Sysoev]

On 28 May 2014, at 03:52, Peter Mescalchin <peter.mescalchin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Nginx developers,
> 
>    speaking to Maxim Konovalov over Twitter, suggested this would be the better place to get an answer to my suggestion.
> 
> Basically what I would like to see is the ability to use a rewrite directive without the need to capture the current URI, which in turn overwrites $1,$2,$x captures made within a location directive.
> 
> Best to explain via an example:
> 
> https://gist.github.com/magnetikonline/11364574
> 
> 
> As you can see, this works (and works well) but the need to use "set" to save copies of $1/$2 seems a little wasteful.
> 
> Digging through the documentation I can't seem to find a way of using rewrite without blowing away/not capturing the current URI.

location ~ "^/[a-f0-9]{16}/(css|js)/(.+)" {
	expires 30d;
	alias  /path/to/$1/$2;
}



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Igor Sysoev
http://nginx.com

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