nginx rewrite URL

Question

I want to rewrite the following URL:

index.php?SOMETHING=VALUE

As

/SOMETHING/VALUE

I'm inexperienced with nginx rewrites so any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Answer 1

I've come up with a solution to your problem :

location /index.php {
    if ( $args ~ "(?<PATH1>.*)=(?<PATH2>.*)" ) {
        rewrite ^ /${PATH1}/${PATH2}? last;
    }
}

Explanations:

• if ( $args ~ "(?<PATH1>.*)=(?<PATH2>.*)" ) : captures the two relevant sections from the URL parameter, storing the values in variables PATH1 and PATH2
• rewrite ^ means "rewrite the entire URI"
• /${PATH1}/${PATH2} is constructing the new URI
• the trailing ? informs nginx that you don't want to append the original URL parameters
• last tells nginx to continue to follow rules after the rewrite