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Pete
Asked: 2014-01-23 09:18:11 +0800 CST

Nginx mutliple rewrite rules per location

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I've got a working nginx rewrite for a location, but in the case of a specific request I want to rewrite to a different location.

location /api {
    if (!-e $request_filename){
        rewrite "^/api/.{2}\.zip" /api/general.zip last; break;
        rewrite ^/api/(.*)$ /api/router.php?rest_data=$1 last; break;
     }
}

So if someone requests /api/uk.zip then it downloads fine, but /api/fr.zip doesn't exist, so it should redirect to /api/general.zip

I've tried 2 location blocks, I get a duplicate location error, and I've tried using 2 if statements, but the second one gets ignored.

If the request is for something else, like /api/events then it should forward to the router page.

nginx

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    If-Is-Evil, avoid using if. You're a starter on nginx and maybe you didn't saw that before (check this guide for a good start). But really, avoid if. And the solution is usually try_files instead.

    In your case a unique try_file cannot be used, because you need to apply a special treatment if the zip file is a two character one. But with two locations it should work. Something like that (untested):

    location ^~ "/api/([0-9a-zA-Z]{2}).zip"  {
    try_files $uri /api/general.zip;
}
location ^~ "/api/(.*)" {
    try_files $uri $uri/ /api/router.php?rest_data=$1;
}
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