Quick question

rewrites happen before location {} blocks are considered (if the
rewrite is on a global level) correct?

so

location /foo {
this will never be computed
}

rewrite /foo/bar /somethingelse permanent;

That’s at least what it seems to me, unless I’m missing something.

It doesn’t seem like ^~ ~* etc seem to matter either. Or is it all
depending on the order in the config file?

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:06:36PM -0700, mike wrote:

That’s at least what it seems to me, unless I’m missing something.

It doesn’t seem like ^~ ~* etc seem to matter either. Or is it all
depending on the order in the config file?

Yes, as in Apache rewrites on server level run before location search.

Then () nginx chooses a location, then nginx runs rewrites inside
the location. If any rewrite is matched and it has not “break” flags,
then nginx chooses a location again, i.e, goes to (
).
This cycle may run no more than 10 times.

well, i did it this way, and it seems to work…

rewrite ^/sites/foo/index.php$ http://foo.com/ permanent;
rewrite ^/sites/coolsw(|/)$ http://foo.com/ permanent;

kill it from search engines

rewrite ^/sites/foo/(.*)$ /kill last;
location /kill {
return 404;
}

2009/3/18 Igor S. [email protected]:

2009/3/18 Igor S. [email protected]:

However, it’s better to runs these rewrites under

   location /sites/foo/ {
     rewrite  ^/sites/foo/index.php$ http://foo.com/ permanent;
     return  404;
   }

   location /sites/coolsw {
     rewrite  ^/sites/coolsw(|/)$ http://foo.com/ permanent;
   }

ahh, duh. this works perfect. i had another rewrite i had missed that
was messing things up:

location /sites/foo {
rewrite ^/sites/foo/index.php$ http://foo.com/permanent;
rewrite ^/sites/foo(|/)$ http://foo.com/permanent;
return 404;
}

Thanks!

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:33:15PM -0700, mike wrote:

well, i did it this way, and it seems to work…

rewrite ^/sites/foo/index.php$ http://foo.com/ permanent;
rewrite ^/sites/coolsw(|/)$ http://foo.com/ permanent;

kill it from search engines

rewrite ^/sites/foo/(.*)$ /kill last;
location /kill {
return 404;
}

However, it’s better to runs these rewrites under

  location /sites/foo/ {
       rewrite  ^/sites/foo/index.php$ http://foo.com/ permanent;
       return   404;
  }

  location /sites/coolsw {
       rewrite  ^/sites/coolsw(|/)$ http://foo.com/ permanent;
  }