Rewrite rule for nginx from Apache

[Igor Sysoev]

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 02:30:28PM -0400, the_traveller wrote:
> I know i'm alittle bit annoying
> 
> but can you show me how i must write the rule
> the path of the script jokes.php is in the public_html dir
> and it should talks the args like that 
> jokes.php?j=$1

Where does this public_html directory reside ?
/usr/local/www, /home/user/, or anything else ?


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Igor Sysoev