rewriting a filename in any directory

[Aaron]

No.. We have MANY directories and I need a rewrite rule that will work
for all subdirectories as well as the root without having to specify
the location for each directory.

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Igor Sysoev <is at rambler-co.ru> wrote:
> 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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> Igor Sysoev
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