Question about rewrite

[Denis S. Filimonov]

On Saturday 05 April 2008 04:40:26 Sasa Ugrenovic wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Be aware that the orginal User Agent line looks something like this:
> "SonyEricssonW800i/R1BC Browser/SEMC-Browser/4.2 Profile/MIDP-2.0
> Configuration/CLDC-1.1"
>
> Do
>
> >         if ($http_user_agent !~* "Profile/MIDP") {
>
> this still stands ? I mean, Will it match the *profile/midp* ?
>
Yes, .*profile/midp.* to be exact. The quotes are probably optional in this 
case, the essential part was the "last" keyword in rewrite.

> Kind Regards,
> Sasa
>
> On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 04:25:19 -0400
>
> "Denis S. Filimonov" <den.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Saturday 05 April 2008 04:00:10 Sasa Ugrenovic wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I moved one site from apache to nginx, and I must say... Im very
> > > satisfied. Wont get into details about that now, just to say - thanks
> > > on the cool project.
> > >
> > > Anyway, to get to the point.
> > > Im running mostly mobile site, so.. I don't wanna pc desktop users
> > > browsing around, instead.. I want to redirect those users to another
> > > site.
> > >
> > > I did a little reasearch about that, and... the only option of how I
> > > can match those users is the "Profile/MIDP" part of UserAgent string.
> > > 99 % of wap browsers send that, and other 1% sends variations on that,
> > > like opera: J2ME/MIDP. So I think thats the best deal.
> > >
> > > I created rules like this:
> > >
> > >        if ($http_user_agent !~* Profile/MIDP) {
> > >                rewrite   ^/   http://www.anothersite.com/;
> > >        }
> > >
> > > However, that aint working right. So obviously im doing something
> > > wrong. Can someone help me how I can properly match that string ?
> >
> >         if ($http_user_agent !~* "Profile/MIDP") {
> >                 rewrite   ^/   http://www.anothersite.com/ last;
> >         }
> >
> > http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxHttpRewriteModule#rewrite
> >
> > --
> > Denis.



-- 
Denis.