Rewriting for revisioned URLs

[Brian Kirkbride]

Igor Sysoev wrote:
> 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;
> }
> 
> 

Thanks Igor, but no luck.  It always falls back to @catalyst, even 
when the file exists.  I have debugging enabled and logging, but I 
don't see anything in the error log to show where it is looking.

I also tried this as well with no luck:

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

This is on 0.6.36 btw.