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

Detlef_R · February 16, 2014, 12:58pm

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]

One gave me this (http://winginx.com/htaccess)

nginx configuration

location / {
rewrite ^(.+)$ /index.php?url=$1 break;
}

and the other gave me this (
http://www.anilcetin.com/convert-apache-htaccess-to-nginx/)
if (!-d %(REQUEST_FILENAME)){
set $rule_0 1$rule_0;
}
if (!-f %(REQUEST_FILENAME)){
set $rule_0 2$rule_0;
}
if (%(REQUEST_FILENAME) !~ “-i”){
set $rule_0 3$rule_0;
}
if ($rule_0 = “321”){
rewrite ^/(.+)$ /index.php?url=$1 last;
}

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?

I forgot I’m using Debian 7.3 (Wheezy) and my nginx version is still
1.2.1.
Don’t know if it’s important or not but my MySQL client is MariaDB
version
5.5.35

Thanks

Paulo_Ferreira · February 17, 2014, 11:38am

Hello!

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

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.