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Terry
Terry

Reputation: 45

nginx rewrite after location match

I am new to nginx and just trying to do something which I believe should be simple. If I do:-

curl http://localhost:8008/12345678

I would expect the index.html page to be returned. But instead I get 404 not found. /usr/share/nginx/html/12345678 no such file

If I do curl http://localhost:8008/ I expect the request to be routed to http://someotherplace/ but instead I get 302 found and thats it.

Apologies for the basic questions but would be grateful for some advice!

This is the code:

server {
    listen 8008;
    server_name default_server;

    location / {
       rewrite ^/$ http://someotherplace/ redirect;
    }

    location ~ "^/[\d]{8}" {
       rewrite ^/$ /index.html;
       root /usr/share/nginx/html;
    }
}

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2258

Answers (2)

IVO GELOV
IVO GELOV

Reputation: 14269

Please try this

server {
    listen 8008;
    server_name default_server;
    root /usr/share/nginx/html;

    location / {
       proxy_pass http://someotherplace/;
       proxy_set_header Host $host;
       proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
    }

    location ~ "^/[\d]{8}" {
       rewrite ^(.*)$ /index.html break; 
    }
}

The proxy_pass will route the request to your remote destination and return the response. Instead of rewrite you can use try_files as described by Richard Smith.

Upvotes: 1

Richard Smith
Richard Smith

Reputation: 49812

The ^/$ does not match the URI /12345678 - it only matches the URI /.

You could use:

rewrite ^ /index.html break;

The ^ is just one of many regular expressions that match anything. The break suffix causes the rewritten URI to be processed within the same location block. See this document for details.

You can achieve the same result using the try_files directive:

location ~ "^/[\d]{8}" {
    root /usr/share/nginx/html;
    try_files /index.html =404;
}

The =404 clause is never reached as index.html always exists - but try_files must have at least two parameters. See this document for details.

Upvotes: 3

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