Problems with rewrite on windows

[halfd]

Hello everyone! 

I am experiencing a rather unsuspected problem with rewrites in nginx on a Windows 2003 server.

I have a system running behind nginx, which generates HTML files and places them
in folders.

In my config I have following:


if (-f $request_filename/index.html) {
	rewrite (.*) $1/index.html break;
}


As you all know, this is to produce clean urls, and this works well in almost all situations.
Except when one enters an address using non-ascii characters (the site is danish, so they are frequent.)

When I enter the url (ex) /mere/æv/ I get a 404
The corrosponding line in error.log is 

2009/09/10 13:50:22  4020#3292: *2 "c:/webroot/WEBSITE/site/www/mere/æv/index.html" is not found (3: The system cannot find the path specified), client: MYIPADDR, server: WEBSITE, request: "GET /mere/%C3%A6v/ HTTP/1.1", host: "WEBSITE"


And this is in access log :

MYIPADDR - - [10/Sep/2009:13:50:22 +0200] "GET /mere/%C3%A6v/ HTTP/1.1" 404 143 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2"


First of all, the path and filename is correct.
The really weird thing is that when I put the index.html after the URL in the browser (ie) /mere/æv/index.html it works fine!

See this line in access log :

MYIPADDR - - [10/Sep/2009:13:51:15 +0200] "GET /mere/%C3%A6v/index.html HTTP/1.1" 304 0 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2"


Here is a request for a straight URL with only ASCII, works fine.

MYIPADDR - - [10/Sep/2009:13:53:50 +0200] "GET /mere/ HTTP/1.1" 304 0 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2"


This setup works fine on a linux box and os x, but is giving me headaches on windows :(

Additional info :
The folder in the example is named "æv", not "%C3%A6v" or the like. This works on the other boxes and when appending index.html to the url.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, many thanks in advance

Halfdan Mouritzen

Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,6256,6256#msg-6256