Migrating Apache rewrites to Nginx

Question

I am trying to serve static HTML with server side PHP processing with Nginx. I have no experience with Apache. I would like to migrate the following re-writes from Apache's .htaccess to Nginx. What would be the corresponding rewrites for a server or location block in Nginx's default.conf?

#.htaccess AddDefaultCharset utf-8 <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^(min\-merge\-cache)=(css|js)\/(.*)$ /static-server/min-merge-cache.php? files=$3&format=$2 [NC,L,NS] RewriteRule ^$ /static-server/file-server.php?file=index&ext=html [NC,L,NS] RewriteRule ^(.*)\.(js|css|html|htm)$ /static-server/file-server.php?file=$1&ext=$2 [NC,L,NS] RewriteRule ^(images)\/(.*)\.(jpe?g|gif|ico|png|swf|flv)$ /static-server/file- server.php?file=$1/$2&ext=$3&img=1 [NC,L,NS] FileETag None </IfModule> php_flag zlib.output_compression On 

My current default.conf looks like this:

server { listen 8080; port_in_redirect off; add_header Cache-Control public; expires max; server_name www.mydomain.com; root /usr/share/nginx/www; index index.html index.php; #Rewrites rewrite ^(min\-merge\-cache)=(css|js)\/(.*)$ /static-server/min-merge-cache.php?files=$3&format=$2; location = /favicon.ico { return 204; } location = /index.html { return 301 http://www.mydomain.com/; } location ~ \.php$ { include fastcgi_params; fastcgi_pass localhost:9000; } #Client Cache gzip on; gzip_types text/css application/x-javascript text/x-component text/richtext image/svg+xml text/plain text/xsd text/xsl text/xml image/x-icon; location ~ \.(css|js|htc)$ { expires 1y; } location ~ \.(html|htm|rtf|rtx|svg|svgz|txt|xsd|xsl|xml)$ { expires 1y; } location ~ \. (asf|asx|wax|wmv|wmx|avi|bmp|class|divx|doc|docx|eot|exe|gif|gz|gzip|ico|jpg|jpeg|jpe|mdb|m id|midi|mov|qt|mp3|m4a|mp4|m4v|mpeg|mpg|mpe|mpp|otf|odb|odc|odf|odg|odp|ods|odt|ogg|pdf|png |pot|pps|ppt|pptx|ra|ram|svg|svgz|swf|tar|tif|tiff|ttf|ttc|wav|wma|wri|xla|xls|xlsx|xlt|xlw |zip)$ { expires 1y; } ## All errors get the generic error page error_page 400 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 409 410 411 412 413 414 415 416 417 495 496 497 500 501 502 503 504 505 506 507 /error_page.html; location /404.html { internal; } } 

I have spent the day reading the documentation at Nginx - http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpRewriteModule and the documentation at Apache - http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html but it has only culminated into horror and despair. I seek your help :)

Answer 1

RewriteRule ^(min\-merge\-cache)=(css|js)\/(.*)$ /static-server/min-merge-cache.php?files=$3&format=$2 [NC,L,NS] RewriteRule ^$ /static-server/file-server.php?file=index&ext=html [NC,L,NS] RewriteRule ^(.*)\.(js|css|html|htm)$ /static-server/file-server.php?file=$1&ext=$2 [NC,L,NS] RewriteRule ^(images)\/(.*)\.(jpe?g|gif|ico|png|swf|flv)$ /static-server/file-server.php?file=$1/$2&ext=$3&img=1 [NC,L,NS] 

would translate to:

rewrite ^(min\-merge\-cache)=(css|js)\/(.*)$ /static-server/min-merge-cache.php?files=$3&format=$2 last; rewrite ^$ /static-server/file-server.php?file=index&ext=html last; rewrite ^(.*)\.(js|css|html|htm)$ /static-server/file-server.php?file=$1&ext=$2 last; rewrite ^(images)\/(.*)\.jpe?g|gif|ico|png|swf|flv)$ /static-server/file-server.php?file=$1/$2&ext=$3&img=1 last;