please help me with follow rewrite rule.

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 12:50:29PM -0400, digginchina wrote:

> here is the structure:
> /images/thumbnails/
> /watermark
> 
> i use follow rewrite rule to add a watermark on my pictures.
> 
> rewrite ^/images/(.*)\.jpg /wm/wm.php?$request_filename;
> 
> i found it will rewrite with images/*.jpg and image/thumbnails/*.jpg,
> but actually i only wanna rewrite images/*.jpg, not subdirectories. then
> i change it to:
> 
> rewrite ^/images/(.[^/])\.jpg /watermark/image.php?$request_filename;

- rewrite ^/images/(.[^/])\.jpg /watermark/image.php?$request_filename;
+ rewrite ^/images/([^/]*)\.jpg /watermark/image.php?$request_filename;

> my opinion is fit all character except "/" so that i can remove all
> subdirectories from the rewrite rule. 
> 
> but unfortunately, it doesn't work well, /images/*.jpg can't be rewrited
> too.
> 
> is there anybody help me with this case?

Recommended reading:
Jeffrey E.F. Friedl, "Mastering Regular Expressions"

And try pcre manpages, in particular 'man pcrepattern'.  Using 
pcretest to test things is good idea, too.

Maxim Dounin