# Help with rewrite rule

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-rewrite-rule/215367>\
**Category:** NGINX\
**Created:** [January 2, 2012, 3:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-rewrite-rule/215367 "2012-01-02T03:21:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![dubstep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@dubstep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dubstep)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2012, 3:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-rewrite-rule/215367/1 "2012-01-02T03:21:17Z")

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I’m trying to rewrite any png files referenced through the fancybox sub  
directory to a directory off of the images folder as follows:

rewrite ^/fancybox/(.+.png)$ /images/fancybox/$1 last;

This is not working, probably b/c my regex is off the mark. Any  
suggestions?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![iberci](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/a3d4f5/32.png) [@iberci](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/iberci)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2012, 3:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-rewrite-rule/215367/2 "2012-01-02T03:28:04Z")

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Solved it with this rule:

```
rewrite ^(.*)/fancybox/(.+\.png)$ /images/fancybox/$2 last;

```

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I’m trying to rewrite any png files referenced through the fancybox sub  
directory to a directory off of the images folder as follows:

rewrite ^/fancybox/(.+.png)$ /images/fancybox/$1 last;

This is not working, probably b/c my regex is off the mark. Any  
suggestions?

Thanks

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