Rewrite assistance needed

[Igor Sysoev]

On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 07:53:22AM +0200, John Stykes wrote:

> Hi Igor, thanks for the response.
> 
> I have that setting already. The problem is that when the request comes 
> with a space (%20) or an ampersand (&) it causes problems and nginx 
> cannot find that directory. So when a request comes for file1.doc in the 
> directory 'Client Files' it cannot find that directory even if i named 
> it Client\ Files on the filesystem.
> 
> This is why i thought perhaps i could rewrite the url or the directory 
> portion so that if a request comes for Client%20Files i simply use a 
> different directory called clientfiles with no spaces.

Could you show the error_log message about these files ?
nginx uses decoded names.

> thanks
> John
> 
> 
> I have tried using a directory such as
> 
> Igor Sysoev wrote:
> > On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 05:59:14AM +0200, John Stykes wrote:
> > 
> >> the problem however occurs when 2 specific requests come to the server
> >> 
> >> but the 2 specific urls above are problematic because of the spaces (in
> >> both) and the ampersand (in one).
> >> 
> >> i've tried endless rewrite rules to make the 2 examples above point to a
> >> different directory on the filesystem but nginx cannot find the file and
> >> i get 404 errors. Filesystem is linux.
> >> 
> >> I have tried using a directory with spaces escaped with \ - no luck
> > 
> > If these files are served by nginx without backend participation,
> > the you need just
> > 
> >     location /clientfiles {
> >         root  /var/www/data;
> >     }
> 
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