strange if

[Jérôme Loyet]

2010/5/20 Daniele Melosi <ml at melosi.it>:
> Hi all,
>
> i'm taking in charge a new nginx cluster with a very strange configurations.
>
> I'm trying rewriting the configuration and i'm unable to find a way to
> better write this if condition:
>
> if ($request_uri !~*
> (^/$|^\/ajax\.php\?type=counter&op=blog&blog(_id|)=.*$.*$|^/\?nl_id=[0-9]+|\?from=[0-9]+|\?confirmkey=.*$|^/post/([0-9]+)(\?[0-9]+|)(\/.*|#.*|\?confirmkey=.*|)$|/post/comment/(saved|close)/([0-9]+)(/[0-9]+|)(\?blog=.*|)$|/permalink/([0-9]+)\.html(#.*)$|/archive/[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]$|/tag(.*|)$|/member/[0-9]+$|/(media|album)(|/[0-9]+\?from=[0-9]+|/[0-9]+)$|/user(.*|)$|/blog|/sitemap(.xml|)|/images/smiley/rhymbox-(.*)/(.*)\.(gif|jpg|png)$|^/[0-9]+$|\?timer=1|check_login\?destination=.*|\?nocache=1))
> {
>        error_page   404 /splinder_404.html;
>        return 404;
> }
>

first, why don't you split your regex ?

> Can it be translated on a location (note the negative !~*).
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Daniele
>
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