index and location not working together properly?

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 11:19:45AM +0100, Ian Hobson wrote:

[...]

>     root /home/ian/websites/reseller/htdocs;
>     # if / then redirect to index.php
>     location = / {
>        # serve /index.php
>        rewrite ^$ /index.php last;

The rewrite here does nothing as only URI "/" may appear here, and 
it's not matched by the "^$" pattern.

You probably want to change it to

         rewrite ^ /index.php last;

[...]

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Maxim Dounin
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