# Rewrite rules in nginx config

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rewrite-rules-in-nginx-config/242703>\
**Category:** NGINX\
**Created:** [July 17, 2015, 5:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rewrite-rules-in-nginx-config/242703 "2015-07-17T17:12:57Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 5:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rewrite-rules-in-nginx-config/242703/1 "2015-07-17T17:12:57Z")

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Hi all,  
thank’s to accept me in this forum.

I’m a newbie… I have a problem with a rewrite rules that I imported  
from  
apache

This is my code

index home.php index.php;  
location / {  
rewrite ^/(._)?$ /categories.php?cat=$1;  
rewrite ^/(._).html?$ /game.php?game=$1;  
rewrite ^/(._)/(._).html?$ /game.php?game=$2 break;  
}

```
location /dists/ {
    # Do nothing. nginx will serve files as usual.
}

location /images/ {
    # Do nothing. nginx will serve files as usual.
}
location /admin/ {
    # Do nothing. nginx will serve files as usual.
}
location /css/ {
    # Do nothing. nginx will serve files as usual.
}
location /config/ {
    # Do nothing. nginx will serve files as usual.
}

```

I’d like ti take parameters from cat and game and use them to know the  
path.

This is oc, but so… all others directories don’t work.  
Is this configuration so insensitive?

Posted at Nginx Forum:

> **[Rewrite rules in nginx config](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,260404,260404#msg-260404)**
>
> Hi all, thank's to accept me in this forum. I'm a newbie... I have a problem with a rewrite rules that I imported from apache This is my code index home.php index.php; location / { rewrite ^/(.\*)?$ /categories.php?cat=$1;