Nginx Regex URL Rewrite Not Working

Question

Why on earth does this not work when all my other URL rewrites work perfectly:

rewrite "^/search/?\?q(.+)$" /search.php?q$1 break;

I did restart nginx and all of that.

I'm trying to change search?q=whatever OR search/?q=whatever to search.php?q=whatever — Alasdair
– Alasdair, Commented Mar 10, 2013 at 14:30
this should work. what's you error? also, try with \1 instead of $1 as a replacement — CSᵠ
– CSᵠ, Commented Mar 10, 2013 at 14:35

Chuan Ma · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-10 16:10:26Z

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Rewrite only works on uri path. You don't need to rewrite the query string part because by default it's automatically attached to the new url.

rewrite /search /search.php break;

For example, /search?q=something will be written to /search.php?q=something.

See http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpRewriteModule#rewrite for more detail. This line below addresses your question

Also rewrite operates only on path, not parameters.

answered Mar 10, 2013 at 15:58

Chuan Ma

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