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suchislife
Asked: 2020-03-29 10:03:29 +0800 CST

NGINX Clean URL ReWrites. How?

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I have spent several hours trying to figure out in NGINX what is otherwise and incredibly trivial task in Apache.

I am exhausted...

I have installed NGINX right out of the box.

html is the root folder.

I

JSON Internal Interface

html
html/api
html/api/v1
html/api/v1/getUsers.php

HTML External Interface

html
html/gui
html/gui/v1
html/gui/v1/get/users/1001

I have a working location block which illustrates the final goal.

location = /get/users/1001 {

  add_header Content-Type text/plain;
  return 200 'This non physical URL path needs to point to html/api/v1/getUsers.php?userId=1001';

}

How can a person accomplish this. I am seriously about to go back to Apache and never look back.

Here is a sample of how I perfectly accomplish this task in Apache by placing the following Apache directives inside an .htaccess file located in html/gui/v1

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^get/users/(\d+)/?$ getUser.php?userId=$1 [L]
nginx regex

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Nginx rewrite directive works almost identically as RewriteRule in Apache2. So all you need is:

    location / {
    rewrite ^/get/users/(\d+)/?$ /getUsers.php?userId=$1 last;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
    # PHP-FPM config
}

    or, if you prefer named captures:

    location / {
    rewrite ^/get/users/(?<userId>\d+)/?$ /getUsers.php?userId=$userId last;
}

    All URI paths are absolute.

    Since you are mentioning regexp locations in your title, your example can be generalized to:

    location ~ ^/get/users/(\d+)/?$ {
    add_header Content-Type text/plain;
    return 200 /getUsers.php?userId=$1;
}
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