Rewrite

[Edho Arief]

2012/4/20 Silvio Siefke <siefke_listen at web.de>:
> Hello,
>
> i want use rewrite to use article-"id".php to the post.php?id=1 for example.
> I has written the follow in the server section:
>
> location /article-(\d+)\.php$ {
> try_files $uri $uri/ /post.php?id=$1;
> }
>
> But it want not run. When i give http://example.com/blog/article-1.php,
> nginx not change to http://example.com/blog/post.php?id=1
>

1. you forgot to put ~ for regex match
2. the one you want is rewrite/return, not try_files

something like this may work:

location ~ ^/article-(\d+)\.php$ {
  rewrite ^ /post.php?id=$1 last;
}