rewriting a filename in any directory

[Igor Sysoev]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 09:09:22AM -0700, Aaron wrote:

> My current rewrite works for http://www.domain.com/af-856757-filename.txt
> but not for http://www.domain.com/directory/af-656556-filename.txt

Do you have

     location /directory/ {

?

> 
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 1:50 AM, Igor Sysoev <is at rambler-co.ru> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:31:01PM -0700, Aaron wrote:
> >
> >> I am trying to achieve the following:
> >>
> >> Request: http://www.domain.com/images/afv-585785-something.gif
> >> Would normally retrieve from : /public/images/afv-585785-something.gif
> >>
> >> I need it to actually retrieve : /public/images/something.gif
> >>
> >> So basically it needs to remove the "afv-######-" portion from the file request.
> >>
> >> I am doing this for cache/expire versioning purposes. I tried the
> >> following but it only works on the root folder and not subdirectories.
> >>
> >> location / {
> >> rewrite ^(.*)/afv-(.*)-(.*)$ $1/$3 last;
> >> }
> >>
> >> What am I doing wrong?
> >
> > What do you mean by subdirectories ?
> >
> >
> > --
> > Igor Sysoev
> > http://sysoev.ru/en/
> >
> >

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