nginx: location, try_files, rewrite: Find pattern match in subfolder, else move on?
- by Nick
I'd like for Nginx to do the following:
If the uri matches the pattern:
http://mysite.com/$string/
and $string is not 'KB', and not 'images', look for $string.html in a specific subfolder. If $string.html exists in the subfolder, return it. If it does not exist, move on to the next matching location.
$string = {any letters, numbers, or dash}
For example, if the user requests:
http://mysite.com/test/
It should look for a file called:
/webroot/www/myfolder/test.html
I've tried variations of:
location ~ /[a-zA-Z0-9\-]+/
{
try_files /myfolder/$uri.html @Nowhere;
}
But:
It doesn't seem to find the file even when it does exist, and
If it fails (which is always right now), it wants to jump to the @nowhere location, rather than moving on and trying to find another location that matches.
I'd like for it to consider the current location "not a match" if the file doesn't exist.
