nginx rewrite help

[Igor Sysoev]

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 05:26:02PM -0700, Kevin Castiglione wrote:

> 2009/6/18 Igor Sysoev <is at rambler-co.ru>
> 
> > On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 08:10:27AM -0700, Kevin Castiglione wrote:
> >
> > > 2009/6/18 Igor Sysoev <is at rambler-co.ru>
> > >
> > > > On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 07:44:55AM -0700, Kevin Castiglione wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > 2009/6/18 Igor Sysoev <is at rambler-co.ru>
> > > > >
> > > > > > On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 07:21:33AM -0700, Kevin Castiglione wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > 2009/6/18 Igor Sysoev <is at rambler-co.ru>
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 06:38:54AM -0700, Kevin Castiglione
> > wrote:
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > 2009/6/18 Igor Sysoev <is at rambler-co.ru>
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 09:22:46PM -0700, Kevin Castiglione
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > hei guys
> > > > > > > > > > > i want all urls to be re-written as follows:
> > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > xx /host/xx
> > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > xx is the url full path, it should be written as
> > /domain/xx
> > > > where
> > > > > > > > host is
> > > > > > > > > > > the hostname.
> > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > for example www.ABCD.COM <http://www.abcd.com/>
> > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > /test?1 ---> /ABCD.COM/test?1 <http://abcd.com/test?1>
> > > > > > > > > > > is it possible to do this with nginx?
> > > > > > > > > > > thank you!
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > Should it be redirect or what ?
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > i dont want it to be a permanent redirect. i just want the
> > url to
> > > > be
> > > > > > > > > rewritten for application processing. i want different
> > domains to
> > > > be
> > > > > > > > handled
> > > > > > > > > by same web app an dmy webframe work supports only url-level
> > > > > > application
> > > > > > > > > mapping. that is why i need this rewrite.
> > > > > > > > > thank you
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > If you use proxing, then
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > server {
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >   location / {
> > > > > > > >       proxy_pass  http://backend/$host$request_uri;
> > > > > > > >    }
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > }
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > im using fastcgi backend.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Then
> > > > > >
> > > > > >   location / {
> > > > > >       ...
> > > > > >       fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME
> > > > > >                      /path/to/scripts/$host$fastcgi_script_name;
> > > > > >       ...
> > > > > >    }
> > > > > >
> > > > > igor:
> > > > > does this mean the backend fastcgi processes have to be in the same
> > > > machine?
> > > > > i have my backends running on different machine like this
> > > >
> > > > No, this path
> > > >        /path/to/scripts/$host$fastcgi_script_name;
> > > > may be on any host.
> > > >
> > > > In your case you need probably this:
> > > >
> > > >      fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /$host$fastcgi_script_name;
> > >
> > > so with this i dont need to write any rewrite rule?
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> igor,
> i changed this and tried. it does not have any affect on the url mapping. my
> fastcgi backend still gets the same url as before.
> this is what i see, with the change you had given.
> xx.com/yy ---> xx.com/yy
> 
> while this is what i want on the webapp/fastcgi backend
> xx.com/yy --> xx.com/xx.com/yy
> im pasting my full config here:
> 
> #user  nobody;
> worker_processes  1;
> 
> error_log  /home/app/error_all.log;
> pid        /home/app/nginx.pid;
> 
> events {
>     worker_connections  1024;
> }
> 
> http {
>     include       mime.types;
>     default_type  application/octet-stream;
>     client_header_buffer_size   8k;
>     large_client_header_buffers  4  8k;
>     fastcgi_buffers      32 4k;
>     fastcgi_buffer_size  4k;
>     sendfile        on;
> 
>     server_names_hash_bucket_size 64;
>     keepalive_timeout  5;
> 
>     gzip  on;
>     gzip_comp_level  1;
>     gzip_proxied     private;
>     gzip_buffers     8 4k;
> 
> 
>     upstream backend_flock{
>         server app1.XXX.com:8492 fail_timeout=1s;
>     }
>     server {
>         listen 8080;
>         access_log   /home/app/access_flock.log;
> 
>         client_max_body_size 10m;
> 
>         location /static {
>             root   /home/app/work/flock;
>         }
>         location / {
>             root   /home/app/work/flock;
> 
>             fastcgi_pass backend_flock;
> 
>             fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /$host$fastcgi_script_name;
>             fastcgi_param PATH_INFO       $fastcgi_script_name;
>             fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING    $query_string;
>             fastcgi_param CONTENT_TYPE    $content_type;
>             fastcgi_param CONTENT_LENGTH  $content_length;
>             fastcgi_param REQUEST_METHOD  $request_method;
>             fastcgi_param REMOTE_ADDR     $remote_addr;
>             fastcgi_param REMOTE_PORT     $remote_port;
>             fastcgi_param SERVER_PROTOCOL $server_protocol;
>             fastcgi_param SERVER_ADDR     $server_addr;
>             fastcgi_param SERVER_PORT     $server_port;
>             fastcgi_param SERVER_NAME     $server_name;
> 
>         }
> 
>     }
> }

Probably, you need

 fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /home/app/work/flock/$host$fastcgi_script_name;

 or

 fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root/$host$fastcgi_script_name;


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Igor Sysoev
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