How to rewrite these

[Glen Lumanau]

I think i've confused :(

What i want is

http://www.mydomain.com/$number/title

i need to get that $number then rewrite it to
http://app.mydomain.com/redirect/$number

I've read about regex, and seems that's not the right thing to do


-----Original Message-----
From: Mauro Stettler [mailto:mauro.stettler at gmail.com] 
Sent: 20 Februari 2010 21:46
To: nginx at nginx.org
Subject: Re: How to rewrite these

honestly, i think you should really go through some regex tutorials

On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 22:42, Benjamin Pineau <ben at zouh.org> wrote:
> Glen Lumanau a écrit :
>> Thank's for your prompt reply..
>>
>> However i tried this
>>
>> rewrite  "/news/([0-9] {2})([0-9] {2})([0-9] {2})/$"
>> http://app.mydomain.com/redirect/application/$1$2$3;
>>
>> but it doesn't work. What I've missed?
>
> The regexp pattern isn't correct. You shouldn't have spaces before
> the "{2}" unless you really want to match two consecutive spaces.
>
> Even without those spaces, this pattern would match urls like
> "/news/123456/" (without "/title" and with a trailing slash), while
> you said you need to match "/news/$id/title" instead. Also, if you
> want to fade out the old url in the long run, you could use a
> permanent redirect.
>
> You probably want something like that:
> rewrite ^/news/([0-9]{6})/title$
>  http://app.mydomain.com/redirect/application/$1 permanent;
>
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