Nginx like Rewrite feature (.htaccess) doesn't seem to be working (Help)

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 11:58:00AM +0000, Paulo Ferreira wrote:

> Good Morning.
> 
> 
> I'm making a site and I want to make the link more usable so I used the
> Apache's RewriteCond which is the one I more comfortable with. I know that
> there are a site or two that lets me convert and so I used them, the thing
> is that it doesn't seem to be working neither of them.
> 
> this is what I have
> RewriteEngine On
> RewriteCond %(REQUEST_FILENAME) !-d
> RewriteCond %(REQUEST_FILENAME) !-f
> RewriteCond %(REQUEST_FILENAME) !-i
> RewriteRule ^(.+)$ index.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]

First of all, original rewrite rules you are trying to convert 
seem to be invalid.  There is no "-i" test in Apache AFAIK.

You may want to rethink what you are trying to do, and do this in 
nginx - instead of trying to convert rules you think you need.

[...]

> My configuration is as follows
> http://pastebin.com/DrA4aAii
> 
> My question is... Do I have to make an additional configuration to make it
> work or do I have to install something extra to make it work?

Your configuration already redirects everything which isn't on the 
file system to /index.html, using the following rule:

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
    }

What you likely need is to change /index.html to your php script.  

See also this article for examples:

http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/converting_rewrite_rules.html

-- 
Maxim Dounin
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