Rewriting for revisioned URLs

[Igor Sysoev]

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 10:50:04AM -0500, Brian Kirkbride wrote:

> 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?

location ~ ^/r\d+(/.*)$ {
    expires max;
    try_files  $1  @catalyst;
}


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