I’m using a location block to respond to requests at http://domain.com/v3/ but I want requests for resources like /v3/accounts/ to be passed to the application as simply /accounts/.
I’ve configured the following rewrite rule in the location block, but I was reading about taxing rewrites in the NGINX docs and I was hoping somebody could tell me if I’ve written the wrong type of regex for this rewrite:
rewrite ^/v3/(.*)$ /$1 break;
Thank you!
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Heya,
Just came across this answer and decided to write some general guidelines for anyone who comes across this in the future despite the old question.
The rewrite rule you’ve shared rewrite ^/v3/(.*)$ /$1 break; looks correct for your requirements. This rule essentially strips the /v3 part from the beginning of the requested URL.
The ^/v3/(.*)$ part of the rule is a regular expression that matches any URL that starts with /v3/. The .* matches any character in the URL after /v3/. Combined, they match /v3/ followed by anything.
The /$1 part of the rule is where matched URLs get rewritten to. $1 is a special variable that contains the value matched by the .* in the regular expression.
The word break at the end of the rule stops processing further rewrite rules if this one matches.
Hope that this helps!
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