What is better location regex or map regex?

[Aleksandar Lazic]

Hi.

I try to transform the pligg htaccess rules to nginx.

https://github.com/Pligg/pligg-cms/blob/master/htaccess.default

There is one from 2010

http://www.edwardawebb.com/web-development/running-pligg-nginx-rewrite-rules

this transformation have some optimization potential, imho ;-).

I would use

location / {
   rewrite $uri $dest last;
   try_files $uri /index.php;
}

instead of

if (!-e $request_filename){
....
}

and

map $uri $dest {
   '~^/advanced-search/?$' '/advancedsearch.php';
   '~^/profile/?'          '/profile.php';
...
   '~^/([^/]+)/?$'         '/index.php?category=$1';
   '~^/([^/]+)/page/([^/]+)/?$' '/index.php?category=$1&page=$2';
}

or

location ~ ^/advanced-search/?$ {
   rewrite ^/advanced-search/?$ /advancedsearch.php last;
}

location ~ ^/profile/? {
   rewrite ^/profile/? /profile.php last;
}
...

What is your suggestion for the fastest and smallest solution.

thanks aleks