Help translating Apache RewriteRules

[Chris Cortese]

ok, sent my last reply before I saw this.  Let me try it now.

On 4/7/2010 1:06 AM, Igor Sysoev wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 12:05:07PM +0400, Igor Sysoev wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 12:25:37AM -0700, Chris Cortese wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I've been using nginx for 1.5 years now with about 10 or so CodeIgniter
>>> sites, but apparently I still haven't mastered the rewrite stuff.
>>>
>>> With the CodeIgniter stuff (and Igor's help), I never had to use the
>>> "rewrite" command at all.
>>>
>>> Anyway, now I need to translate the following (from .htaccess for Apache):
>>>
>>> RewriteRule ^([0-9a-zA-Z\/\-\_\@]+)$ index.php?demand=$1 [QSA,L]
>>>
>>> My current conf file is going into a loop and eventually returning nothing:
>>>
>>> server {
>>>     listen 80;
>>>     server_name  mysite.com.vmware;
>>>
>>>     access_log  /usr/local/nginx/logs/mysite.com.access.log;
>>>     error_log /usr/local/nginx/logs/mysite.com.error.log;
>>>
>>>     root /home/mylinuxuser/www/live/mysite.com;
>>>     index index.php;
>>>
>>>     rewrite ^/([0-9a-zA-Z\/\-\_\@]+)$ /index.php?demand=$1 last;
>>>
>>>     location / {
>>>       fastcgi_pass  127.0.0.1:9000;
>>>       fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME
>>> /home/mylinuxuser/www/live/mysite.com/index.php;
>>>       include /usr/local/nginx/conf/fastcgi_params;
>>>     }
>>> }
>>>
>>> --------------
>>>
>>> Can someone please advise?
>>
>>      location ~ ^/([0-9a-zA-Z\/\-\_\@]+)$ {
>>        fastcgi_pass  127.0.0.1:9000;
>>        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME
>>                      /home/mylinuxuser/www/live/mysite.com/index.php;
>>        fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING    demand=$uri;
>
> A typo:
>
> -       fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING    demand=$uri;
> +       fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING    demand=$1;
>
>>        include /usr/local/nginx/conf/fastcgi_params0;
>>      }
>>
>>      location / {
>>        fastcgi_pass  127.0.0.1:9000;
>>        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME
>>                      /home/mylinuxuser/www/live/mysite.com/index.php;
>>        include /usr/local/nginx/conf/fastcgi_params;
>>      }
>>
>> fastcgi_params0 is copy of fastcgi_params without QUERY_STRING parameter.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Igor Sysoev
>> http://sysoev.ru/en/
>>
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