rewrite assistance

[Igor Sysoev]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 11:42:38PM -0500, daveyfx wrote:

> Francis Daly Wrote:
> -------------------------------------------------------
> 
> > Assuming that this sentence describes your wish:
> > 
> > location = /preview.php {
> >   rewrite ^ /? permanent;
> > }
> > 
> > (untested!) should probably Just Work.
> > 
> > If you *do* want to vary based on the query string
> > (?-bit), the manual
> > has an example.
> > 
> > Good luck,
> > 
> > 	f
> > -- 
> > Francis Daly        francis at daoine.org
> 
> Francis,
> 
> Spot on.  That seems to have done the trick.  Out of my own desire to
> learn, is there a way to do the same thing without using the location
> directive, and just merely using a rewrite statement?

You can place the rewrite on server level, but it's better to use
the location, because otherwise nginx will run regex "^/preview\.php$" for
every request. Testing "location = /preview.php" is faster.


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