Nginx case insensitive URL and rewrite URL?

[Francis Daly]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 09:15:54AM -0500, grydan wrote:

Hi there,

> I need that the URL request from any combination of FOLDER1 (case
> insensitive) is rewrite from URL
> 
> http://www.pippo.com/FOLDER1/etc..etc..etc..
> to (always lowercase folder1)
> 
> http://12.0.0.1/folder1/etc..etc..etc...
> where etc..etc..etc. = anything that I need to keep

Use a location{} that matches these requests, and give proxy_pass the
full uri.

Something like

  location ~* ^/folder1/(.*) {
    proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080/folder1/$1$is_args$args;
  }

although you probably want more directives in there too.

Note that, while this does work in a test system, it might be contrary
to the documentation at http://nginx.org/r/proxy_pass, so it may not
work forever. I think that the fact that the regex matches the complete
request uri probably means that it is ok, though.

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Francis Daly        francis at daoine.org