Problem with simple rewrite rule

Server NGINX
1

I try to create a very simple rewrite rule with nginx, but i doesnt
work.

I have set up my server with a “catch all” server_name *.mydomain.com

I then try to create a rewrite rule so that requests to
mysubdomain.mydomain.com/wiki.php?wiki=WIKIPAGE will be rewritten to
mysubdomain.mydomain.com/WIKIPAGE

Here is the option that i thought would work:

   server {
         server_name mysubdomain.domain.com;
         if (!-e $request_filename) {
         rewrite ^/(.*)$ /wiki.php?wiki=$1 last;
         }
    }

Suggestions to why this does not work are highly appreciated.

Thanks,
per

2

I think the first problem is that you’re redirecting to wiki.php instead
of
to the “/WIKIPAGE” url. As I found out last week, replacing query
strings in
nginx can be tricky. Does this work? (it won’t work with more query
string
params)

server {
if ($query_string ~ ^wiki=(.)$) {
rewrite ^(.)$ /$1 break;
}
}

-tieg

3

On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 8:24 PM, Tieg Z. [email protected]
wrote:

Hi, thanks for your response. I tried your proposed config change, but
it
still does not work. And there’s only one query string.

Per

4

Did you do a full “reload” of the nginx conf? Or just restart? Also,
what’s
the resulting url that it takes you too?

5

On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 08:01:44PM +0100, Per Hans Hansen wrote:

   server {
         server_name mysubdomain.domain.com;
         if (!-e $request_filename) {
         rewrite ^/(.*)$ /wiki.php?wiki=$1 last;
         }
    }

Suggestions to why this does not work are highly appreciated.

I do not understand.

You said, you want to rewrite

/wiki.php?wiki=WIKIPAGE => /WIKIPAGE

but your rewrite do opposite thing:

/WIKIPAGE => /wiki.php?wiki=WIKIPAGE

What exactly do you want ?

6

I didnt do a full reload, but i’ve tried now and it still doesn’t work.
I’m
taken to the URL that i want to (/WIKIPAGE) but i’m getting a 404.

7

Oh, I thought it was the opposite; that’s probably why mine doesn’t
work,
-tieg

8

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Igor S. [email protected] wrote:

What exactly do you want ?

What i meant was that when i visit sub.domain.com/WIKIPAGE the page
wiki.php?wiki=WIKIPAGE
shall be shown. I guess i mixed up in the original post. Sorry for that.

Per