# Please help me with follow rewrite rule **URL:** \ **Category:** NGINX\ **Created:** [October 6, 2010, 6:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/please-help-me-with-follow-rewrite-rule/196092 "2010-10-06T18:52:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![digginchina](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/bc8723/32.png) [@digginchina](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/digginchina)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2010, 6:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/please-help-me-with-follow-rewrite-rule/196092/1 "2010-10-06T18:52:11Z")
here is the structure: /images/thumbnails/ /watermark i use follow rewrite rule to add a watermark on my pictures. rewrite ^/images/(.\*).jpg /wm/wm.php?$request\_filename; i found it will rewrite with images/_.jpg and image/thumbnails/_.jpg, but actually i only wanna rewrite images/\*.jpg, not subdirectories. then i change it to: rewrite ^/images/(.[^/]).jpg /watermark/image.php?$request\_filename; my opinion is fit all character except “/” so that i can remove all subdirectories from the rewrite rule. but unfortunately, it doesn’t work well, /images/\*.jpg can’t be rewrited too. is there anybody help me with this case? thanks a lot. regards solo Posted at Nginx Forum: > **[please help me with follow rewrite rule.](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,137829,137829#msg-137829)** > > here is the structure: /images/thumbnails/ /watermark i use follow rewrite rule to add a watermark on my pictures. rewrite ^/images/(.\*)\\.jpg /wm/wm.php?$request\_filename; i found it will rewrite with images/\*.jpg and image/thumbnails/\*.jpg, ---
**Author:** ![digginchina](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/bc8723/32.png) [@digginchina](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/digginchina)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2010, 7:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/please-help-me-with-follow-rewrite-rule/196092/2 "2010-10-06T19:16:12Z")
Hello! On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 12:50:29PM -0400, digginchina wrote: > i change it to: > > rewrite ^/images/(.[^/]).jpg /watermark/image.php?$request\_filename; - rewrite ^/images/(.[^/]).jpg /watermark/image.php?$request\_filename; - rewrite ^/images/([^/]\*).jpg /watermark/image.php?$request\_filename; > my opinion is fit all character except “/” so that i can remove all > subdirectories from the rewrite rule. > > but unfortunately, it doesn’t work well, /images/\*.jpg can’t be rewrited > too. > > is there anybody help me with this case? Recommended reading: Jeffrey E.F. Friedl, “Mastering Regular Expressions” And try pcre manpages, in particular ‘man pcrepattern’. Using pcretest to test things is good idea, too. Maxim D. ---
**Author:** ![digginchina](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/bc8723/32.png) [@digginchina](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/digginchina)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2010, 7:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/please-help-me-with-follow-rewrite-rule/196092/3 "2010-10-06T19:47:13Z")
On 6 Out 2010 17h50 WEST, [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > images/\*.jpg, not subdirectories. then i change it to: > > rewrite ^/images/(.[^/]).jpg > /watermark/image.php?$request\_filename; You regex is incorrect. Furthermore since you’re not doing any capturing or using alternative patterns drop the group. rewrite ^/images/[^/]\*.jpg /watermark/image.php?$request\_filename; It matches any file _only_ under the images directory ending in .jpg. — appa ---
**Author:** ![digginchina](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/bc8723/32.png) [@digginchina](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/digginchina)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 12:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/please-help-me-with-follow-rewrite-rule/196092/4 "2010-10-07T00:18:16Z")
thanks a lot, prefect solution. Posted at Nginx Forum: > **[Re: please help me with follow rewrite rule.](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,137829,137933#msg-137933)** > > here is the structure: /images/thumbnails/ /watermark i use follow rewrite rule to add a watermark on my pictures. rewrite ^/images/(.\*)\\.jpg /wm/wm.php?$request\_filename; i found it will rewrite with images/\*.jpg and image/thumbnails/\*.jpg, ---
**Author:** ![digginchina](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/bc8723/32.png) [@digginchina](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/digginchina)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2010, 12:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/please-help-me-with-follow-rewrite-rule/196092/5 "2010-10-25T12:53:49Z")
i found the forum remove my space… it should be image/2010/thumb image/2009/thumb thanks a lot. Posted at Nginx Forum: > **[Re: please help me with follow rewrite rule.](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,137829,144285#msg-144285)** > > here is the structure: /images/thumbnails/ /watermark i use follow rewrite rule to add a watermark on my pictures. rewrite ^/images/(.\*)\\.jpg /wm/wm.php?$request\_filename; i found it will rewrite with images/\*.jpg and image/thumbnails/\*.jpg, ---
**Author:** ![digginchina](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/bc8723/32.png) [@digginchina](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/digginchina)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2010, 9:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/please-help-me-with-follow-rewrite-rule/196092/6 "2010-10-25T09:12:45Z")
hello Almeida, if there is a structure like: /images /2010 /thumb /2009 /thumb … if i want to match all jpg files in directory images, except jpg files in every thumb directories, what should use? i try rewrite ^/images/[^/thumb/]\*.jpg /watermark/image.php?$request\_filename; but it can’t work well… thanks a lot. regards solo Posted at Nginx Forum: > **[Re: please help me with follow rewrite rule.](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,137829,144231#msg-144231)** > > here is the structure: /images/thumbnails/ /watermark i use follow rewrite rule to add a watermark on my pictures. rewrite ^/images/(.\*)\\.jpg /wm/wm.php?$request\_filename; i found it will rewrite with images/\*.jpg and image/thumbnails/\*.jpg,