Redirect ends up in a loop

[Igor Sysoev]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 03:45:27AM -0400, shainp wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> I wanted to use NginxHttpMapModule and NginxRedirect to redirect static
> links to dynamic php links.
> 
> I want to redirect http://my_domain/static/static_page1.html to
> http://domain_name/dynamic/zone.php?zoneid=86 by looking up the url from
> a map table.
> 
> I tried this but it ends in a redirect loop. 
> 
>     [code]
> map_hash_bucket_size 256;
>     map $uri $dynamic_url {
>         default 42;
>         /static/static_page1.html 86;
>         /static/static_page2.html 36;
>     }
>     server {
>         listen       80;     
>         server_name  _;
>             rewrite ^
> http://domain_name/dynamic/zone.php?zoneid=$dynamic_url break;
>     }
> [/code]

Do you want to proxy or redirect ?

-   rewrite ^ http://domain_name/dynamic/zone.php?zoneid=$dynamic_url break;
+   rewrite ^ http://domain_name/dynamic/zone.php?zoneid=$dynamic_url;


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