The two slashes issue - or how to append a constant to a parameter.

[Igor Sysoev]

On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 11:42:13AM +0000, Ian Hobson wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I have a situation that I have had to fix using set...
> 
>        # handle directory names by adding /index.htm
>        location ~ ^(.*)/$ {
>                # matches directories
>                set $path index.htm;
>                fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING f=$request_uri$path;
>                fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_ROOT $document_root;
>                fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /var/www/builder/parser.php;
>                fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
>        }
> 
> The issue was that with 
> 
> fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING f=$request_uri/index.htm;
> 
> I was getting two slashes - one added by nginx and one on the line 
> above, even if the entered URI contained none.
> 
> Is there a better way of adding a constant after a parameter?

I did not read thoughtfully, you may use

- fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING f=$request_uri/index.htm;
+ fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING f=${request_uri}index.htm;

However, $request_uri is not good choice for this as it may have query string:

     /dir/?one=1&two2


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