rewrite or internal redirection cycle

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 04:21:17PM -0700, Michael Barrett wrote:

> Hi, I have the following rewrite rule:
> 
>     location = / {
>         if ($vanity) {
>             rewrite ^/$ /?static_event_cache=1? last;
>         }   
>     }
> 
> 
> Whenever I hit / & vanity is set I get the following error message:
> 
> Apr 20 16:16:58 stage-djcore-www1 nginx: 2011/04/20 16:16:58 [error] 30825#0: *103 rewrite or internal redirection cycle while processing "/", client: 10.203.66.146, server: , request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", host: "awesometown.eventbrite.com"
> 
> I get why I have the loop - but I thought (from reading another 
> post online) that last would help.  Is there anyway to do 
> something like this?

The "last" means "stop processing rewrites and search for location 
match again".  As the same location will match - cycle is 
expected.

You probably want "break" instead, i.e. "stop processing rewrites 
and handle request here".

See http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpRewriteModule#rewrite for more 
details.

Maxim Dounin