# Rewrite **URL:** \ **Category:** NGINX\ **Created:** [April 20, 2012, 1:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rewrite/219072 "2012-04-20T01:54:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gurdipe\_D](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/b77776/32.png) [@Gurdipe\_D](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Gurdipe_D)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 1:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rewrite/219072/1 "2012-04-20T01:54:11Z")
Hello, i want use rewrite to use article-“id”.php to the post.php?id=1 for example. I has written the follow in the server section: location /article-(\d+).php$ { try\_files $uri $uri/ /post.php?id=$1; } But it want not run. When i give [http://example.com/blog/article-1.php](http://example.com/blog/article-1.php), nginx not change to [http://example.com/blog/post.php?id=1](http://example.com/blog/post.php?id=1) 192.168.0.20 - - [20/Apr/2012:01:52:16 +0200] “GET /blog/article-1.php HTTP/1.1” 404 27 “http://silviosiefke\_de/blog/pdo-read.php” “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.162 Safari/535.19” “-” Has someone idea whereis the mistake? Thanks for help. Regards Silvio ---
**Author:** ![silviosilva](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@silviosilva](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/silviosilva)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 1:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rewrite/219072/2 "2012-04-20T01:57:53Z")
2012/4/20 Silvio S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): > nginx not change to [http://example.com/blog/post.php?id=1](http://example.com/blog/post.php?id=1) 1. you forgot to put ~ for regex match 2. the one you want is rewrite/return, not try\_files something like this may work: location ~ ^/article-(\d+).php$ { rewrite ^ /post.php?id=$1 last; } ---
**Author:** ![silviosilva](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@silviosilva](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/silviosilva)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 2:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rewrite/219072/3 "2012-04-20T02:44:11Z")
On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 06:56:51 +0700 Edho A. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > 1. you forgot to put ~ for regex match > 2. the one you want is rewrite/return, not try\_files Thanks for help. So i have from this list, with the html files it run. But nginx want not use html inside php so i must change the rule. > something like this may work: > > location ~ ^/article-(\d+).php$ { > rewrite ^ /post.php?id=$1 last; > } Is the same, i become “File not found”. 192.168.0.20 - - [20/Apr/2012:02:40:32 +0200] “GET /blog/article-1.php HTTP/1.1” 404 27 “http://silviosiefke\_de/blog/index.php” “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.162 Safari/535.19” “-” Regards Silvio gentoo-desk db # nginx -V nginx version: nginx/1.0.15 TLS SNI support enabled configure arguments: --prefix=/usr --sbin-path=/usr/sbin/nginx –conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf –error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error\_log –pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid --lock-path=/var/lock/nginx.lock –with-cc-opt=-I/usr/include --with-ld-opt=-L/usr/lib –http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access\_log –http-client-body-temp-path=/var/tmp/nginx/client –http-proxy-temp-path=/var/tmp/nginx/proxy –http-fastcgi-temp-path=/var/tmp/nginx/fastcgi –http-scgi-temp-path=/var/tmp/nginx/scgi –http-uwsgi-temp-path=/var/tmp/nginx/uwsgi –with-http\_addition\_module --with-http\_dav\_module –with-http\_realip\_module –with-http\_stub\_status\_module --with-http\_sub\_module –with-http\_xslt\_module –with-http\_realip\_module --with-pcre –add-module=/var/tmp/portage/www-servers/nginx-1.0.15/work/agentzh-headers-more-nginx-module-137855d –add-module=/var/tmp/portage/www-servers/nginx-1.0.15/work/nginx\_http\_push\_module-0.692 –add-module=/var/tmp/portage/www-servers/nginx-1.0.15/work/nginx\_upload\_module-2.2.0 –with-http\_ssl\_module --without-mail\_imap\_module –without-mail\_pop3\_module –without-mail\_smtp\_module --user=nginx --group=nginx ---
**Author:** ![silviosilva](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@silviosilva](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/silviosilva)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 2:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rewrite/219072/4 "2012-04-20T02:46:02Z")
2012/4/20 Silvio S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): > > location ~ ^/article-(\d+).php$ { > > rewrite ^ /post.php?id=$1 last; > > } > > Is the same, i become “File not found”. Put the block before all other locations. ---
**Author:** ![silviosilva](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@silviosilva](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/silviosilva)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 3:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rewrite/219072/5 "2012-04-20T03:23:49Z")
Hello, On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 06:56:51 +0700 Edho A. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > 1. you forgot to put ~ for regex match > 2. the one you want is rewrite/return, not try\_files > > something like this may work: > > location ~ ^/article-(\d+).php$ { > rewrite ^ /post.php?id=$1 last; > } Ok i have it do, but the result is same, File not found. The config complete: [http://nopaste.info/af7861f553.html](http://nopaste.info/af7861f553.html) Regards Silvio