broesch's questions

I have the following location block, as part of a complex routing for a CMS:

    location @mylocation {

        if (-d $request_filename) {
            rewrite ^/(.*)$ /$controller/$siteName last;
            break;
        }

        if ($request_filename !~ "\.(js|htc|ico|gif|jpg|png|css)$") {
          rewrite ^/(.*)$ /$controller/$siteName/$1 last;
        }

    }

$controller is something like "index.php" and $siteName is a hash identifying the specific site in the cms.

It is working fine, nginx rewrites http://www.mydomain/path?somearg=something to http://www.mydomain/index.php/HASH/path?somearg=something.

But when I have an url like this http://www.mydomain/path/?somearg=something nginx redirects(301) to http://www.mydomain/index.php/HASH/path?somearg=something, and index.php and HASH are exposed.

I tried something like this:

    location @mylocation {

        if (-d $request_filename) {
            rewrite ^/(.*)$ /$controller/$siteName last;
            break;
        }

        if ($request_filename ~ "") {
            #not sure what to put here
        }


        if ($request_filename !~ "\.(js|htc|ico|gif|jpg|png|css)$") {
          rewrite ^/(.*)$ /$controller/$siteName/$1 last;
        }

    }

But I'm unsure what to put in the second if block in order to avoid the redirect.

Any help is appreciated, thanks.