Rewrite a Shortened URL to a Pretty URL?

[Edho Arief]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 1:23 PM, slevytam <nginx-forum at nginx.us> wrote:
> 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?
>

remove the permanent keyword. (note that there may be better way to do this)