Rewrite rules in nginx config

[Miguel C]

On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 4:12 PM, dr.net <nginx-forum at nginx.us> wrote:
> Hi all,
> thank's to accept me in this forum.
>
> I'm a newbie... I have a problem with a rewrite rules that I imported from
> apache
>
> This is my code
>
>
> index home.php index.php;
> location / {
> rewrite ^/(.*)?$ /categories.php?cat=$1;
> rewrite ^/(.*).html?$ /game.php?game=$1;
> rewrite ^/(.*)/(.*).html?$ /game.php?game=$2 break;
> }
>
Before anything... you seem to want to serve PHP, but I don't see
anything in the config pointing to a php backend such as php-fpm...

>     location /dists/ {
>         # Do nothing. nginx will serve files as usual.
>     }
>
>     location /images/ {
>         # Do nothing. nginx will serve files as usual.
>     }
>     location /admin/ {
>         # Do nothing. nginx will serve files as usual.
>     }
>     location /css/ {
>         # Do nothing. nginx will serve files as usual.
>     }
>     location /config/ {
>         # Do nothing. nginx will serve files as usual.
>     }
>

As for this locations you could simplify to just one whats the "root"
path?  you don't seem to define one, unless you didn't paste the full
config.

> I'd like ti take parameters from cat and game and use them to know the path.
>
> This is oc, but so... all others directories don't work.
> Is this configuration so insensitive?
>
> Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,260404,260404#msg-260404
>
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