Rewrite Rules

[Igor Sysoev]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 07:48:30AM -0700, Paul Greenwood wrote:

> Are the rewrite rules processed in the order they are listed in the
> nginx.conf file or does nginx put them in the correct order when nginx is
> started up?

nginx processes if/set/rewrite in following order:

1) server level rules;
2) then locaiton level rules;
   if a matching rewrite rule has no break flag,
   then nginx searches a new location and go to (2),
   i.e. runs location level rules.

On given level rules are processed in the order they are listed.

Example for request "/":

       server {

           rule1

           location / {
               rule3
               rule4
           }

           location ~ \.php$ {
               rule5
           }

           rule2

rule1, rule2,
rule3, rule4; rule4 rewrites to index.php;
rule5


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Igor Sysoev
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