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I have pictures on a path looking like this:

/0/1/2/3/4/01234/screenshots/1.jpg

The URL to access it looks like this:

/static/0/1/2/3/4/01234/screenshots/1.jpg

I'd like it to look like this:

/0/1/2/3/4/01234/a-desc-of-the-picture/screenshots/1.jpg

Or something similar. The goal is to have the keywords in the URL for SEO.

But would like to tell nginx to serve 

/0/1/2/3/4/01234/screenshots/1.jpg

When he sees:

/0/1/2/3/4/01234/a-desc-of-the-picture/screenshots/1.jpg

I don't want it to redirect the user to the proper URL, I just want it to do the mapping internally.

Is it possible ? How can I achieve this ?

I've seen something similar here, but I can't find a way to apply it to my case. Something noob friendly would be much appreciated.

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Assuming you've got a base path that's regexable, you can do something like:

location ~ ^/static/(././././.....)/[^/]+/(.*)$ { alias /location/on/filesystem/$1/$2; }

Nginx's alias directive is more flexible than Apache's equivalent.

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  • There is typo. Exclamation mark "!" in location statement should be replaced with tilda "~". Commented Jul 18, 2011 at 10:47
  • Thanks for that. You can edit directly though, rather than dropping in a comment. Commented Jul 18, 2011 at 10:48
  • I can't. It prevents me from doing edits wich less than 6 characters long and I don't want to mess with other parts to overcome this limit. Commented Jul 18, 2011 at 10:50
  • How odd... I never realised there was a "minimum edit limit". Oh well, thanks for letting me know anyway. Commented Jul 18, 2011 at 10:59
  • Cool thanks. Can you show me how to do that with lighttpd too ? I changed the title. Commented Jul 18, 2011 at 11:37

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