Rewriting for revisioned URLs

[Brian Kirkbride]

Hi all,

I'm trying to switch us from LigHTTPD to NginX and have run into some 
issues.  Any help is much appreciated.

We use revisioned URLs to allow for far-future caching of resources 
(e.g. http://example.com/r1234567890/site.css) and are having trouble 
getting this to work.

Basically we need to strip /r1234567890 from the front of the URI and 
set expires to max, then check for a file and fallback to FastCGI.

I've tried something like:


location ~ ^/r[0-9]+ {
     if ( $uri ~ ^/r([0-9]+)(/.*)$ ) {
         set $rev $1;
         set $realuri $2;
     }
     expires max;
     try_files $root/$realuri @catalyst;
}


with no luck.  Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!