Rewrite a Shortened URL to a Pretty URL?

[slevytam]

Hi,

I was hoping someone could help me with a rewrite question.  

Currently, I use a basic rewrite for my url shortener.

if (!-e $request_filename) {
     rewrite ^/(.*)$ /entry/index.php?id=$1 permanent;
}

This forwards a url like http://www.domain.com/1234 to
http://www.domain.com/entry/index.php?id=1234.  It works great. 

The problem is that I've realized that pretty urls are strongly preferred by
google.  

So I would like following scenario:
http://www.domain.com/1234 to rewrite to
http://www.domain.com/entry/index.php?id=1234 while showing the user
http://www.domain.com/1234/this-is-the-pretty-part in the address bar

Can anyone tell me what is the best way to do this?

Thanks,

slevytam

Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,229974,229974#msg-229974