Rewrite assistance needed

[Payam Chychi]

2009/5/4 Igor Sysoev <is at rambler-co.ru>:
> 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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>
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> Igor Sysoev
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>
>

could you not look at the request then do a re-write and match for  if
( $string =~ s/\\s/\%20/) { ......}  ?
There is probably a way more elegant way to do this...

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Payam Tarverdyan Chychi
Network Security Specialist / Network Engineer