Question

I have this directive in my nginx virtual host file:

try_files $uri $uri/ /profile.php?nickname=$uri&$args;

It works ok, but I want to rewrite only 0-9a-z- characters so that users have nice profile addresses, for example:

http://www/mydomain.com/john

But nginx rewrites everything. For example, if I enter address:

http://www.mydomain.com/non-existing-holder/nonexisting-filename.html

instead of returning 404 error it rewrites everything.

Is there any way how to rewrite only 0-9-a-z- characters?

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name www.mydomain.com;
    access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
    error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
    root /var/www/mydomain;
    error_page 404 /4044.html;
    location / {
        index index.html index.htm index.php;
        try_files $uri $uri/ /profile.php?nickname=$uri&$args;
        rewrite ^/forum/([0-9-]+)/([0-9a-z-]+).html$ /forum.php?tid=$1&title=$2 last;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        try_files  $uri =404;
        include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_pass  127.0.0.1:9000;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
    }
}

Answer 1

You can try the following configuration.

• Request for /testUSER would return a 404
• Request for /forum/100/something.html would go to /forum.php?tid=100&title=something
• Request for /nickname would go to /profile.php?nickname=nickname

.

location / {
    index index.html index.htm index.php;
    rewrite ^/([0-9a-z-]+)/?$ /profile.php?nickname=$1&$args last;
    try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
}
location /forum {
    rewrite ^/forum/([0-9-]+)/([0-9a-z-]+).html$ /forum.php?tid=$1&title=$2 last;
    alias /var/www/mydomain/forum;
}