rewrite for javascript files.. again, fire on live site

[Chris Cortese]

I finally got this working but I had to go back to a rewrite method.

The relevant part of the config is:

 location ~ /javascript/(.*\.js) {
    rewrite /javascript/(.*\.js) /combine.php?type=javascript&files=$1 last;
}

(and similarly for css)

I'm not sure why I couldn't get the non-rewrite method working.  I am 
not really clear on how QUERY_STRING works.  For 99% of the php (the 
code igniter part), setting the QUERY_STRING q=$request_uri does it (in 
the CodeIgniter config you have to set the protocol to REQUEST_URI).  
like so:

  location / {
    fastcgi_pass  127.0.0.1:10005;
    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME 
/home/fugbert/www/live/escort-space/trunk/html/public/index.php;
    fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING      q=$request_uri;
    include /usr/local/nginx/conf/fastcgi_params;
  }

combine.php doesn't work the way CodeIgniter does.  It's just a PHP 
script that expects (for example) 
?type=javascript&files=fileA.js,fileB.js,fileC.js


Chris


Igor Sysoev wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:29:42AM -0700, Chris Cortese wrote:
>
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> Somehow my rewrite for Javascript got broken again.  I've tried every 
>> possible combination of things I can think of.  What I need is:
>>
>> orig URL:  http://mysite.com/javascript/fileA.js,fileB.js,fileC.js
>>
>> ...becomes...
>>
>> dest URL: 
>> http://mysite.com/combine.php?type=javascript&files=fileAjs.,fileB.js,fileC.js
>>
>> So this is the latest variation I've tried, with the new nginx 0.7.40:
>>
>> location ^/javascript/(.*)$ {
>>    fastcgi_pass  127.0.0.1:10005;
>>    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME 
>> /home/fugbert/www/live/escort-space/trunk/html/public/combine.php?type=javascript&files=$1;
>>    fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING      q=$request_uri;
>>    include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
>>  }
>>
>> ** in fastcgi_params, I have the defaults except I commented out 
>> QUERY_STRING line.
>>     
>
> It's really strange: in my debug log I see
>
> 2009/03/10 21:35:31 [debug] 10047#0: *1 http request line: "GET /javascript/fileA.js,fileB.js,fileC.js HTTP/1.0"
> 2009/03/10 21:35:31 [debug] 10047#0: *1 http uri: "/javascript/fileA.js,fileB.js,fileC.js"
>
> [...]
>
> 2009/03/10 21:35:31 [debug] 10047#0: *1 http script copy: "SCRIPT_FILENAME"
> 2009/03/10 21:35:31 [debug] 10047#0: *1 http script copy: "/home/fugbert/www/live/escort-space/trunk/html/public/combine.php?type=javascript&files="
> 2009/03/10 21:35:31 [debug] 10047#0: *1 http script capture: "fileA.js,fileB.js,fileC.js"
> 2009/03/10 21:35:31 [debug] 10047#0: *1 fastcgi param: "SCRIPT_FILENAME: /home/fugbert/www/live/escort-space/trunk/html/public/combine.php?type=javascript&files=fileA.js,fileB.js,fileC.js"
>
> I.e., SCRIPT_FILENAME is right. 
>
>   
>> The error I'm getting is undefined index "type" which tells me that the 
>> $_GET array is not available to combine.php.
>>
>> This is hurting a live site.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your help,
>> Chris
>>     
>
>
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