Right, I did not pay attention to that. However, when requesting the root (by typing b.cd in the browser), $uri should be empty, thus why can't '$uri/' act as '/' and redirect accordingly? --- *B. R.* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx/attachments/20140216/b3ed0c58/attachment.html>