Rewrite code from htaccess to nginx config? - apache

Question

I have problem with implement my rewrite code from htaccess file into nginx config.
I've already tried generator : http://winginx.com/htaccess for generate my rewrite
code.
My nginx config code:
server {
listen 80;
server_name example.com;
return 301 $scheme://www.example.com$request_uri;
}
server {
listen 80;
root /usr/share/nginx/www;
index index.php;
server_name www.example.com;
error_page 404 http://www.example.com/404.php;
autoindex off;
error_log /usr/share/nginx/www/nginx_error.log warn;
location / {
rewrite ^([^\.]*)$ /$1.php;
}
location = / {
rewrite ^ /index.php;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
}
}
I wanna implement this from my .htaccess:
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/([A-Za-z0-9-/_]+)$ admin/index.php?hotelname=$1&do=$2 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^(([A-Za-z0-9-/]+)+)$ admin/index.php?hotelname=$1 [L]
Generated code from tool:
location / {
rewrite ^/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/([A-Za-z0-9-/_]+)$ /admin/index.php?hotelname=$1&do=$2;
rewrite ^/(([A-Za-z0-9-/]+)+)$ /admin/index.php?hotelname=$1 break;
}
I have alredy tried implement this last lines of code to my location blocks but not working at all..
I will be very greateful for every opinion!
Regards
Makromat

Answer 1

The blind kind of conversion would be
rewrite ^([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/([A-Za-z0-9-/_]+)$ admin/index.php?hotelname=$1&do=$2&$query_string last;
rewrite ^(([A-Za-z0-9-/]+)+)$ admin/index.php?hotelname=$1 last;
But I would prefer if I understand the question more to produce a more optimum rewrite.
When do I know if the URL should be passed to /admin or not, give me an actual URI for backend and for frontend.

Answer 2

Usually rewrites are better managed in nginx using nginx way of thinking. And this new way of thinking is more based on try_file.
So you may try something like that (untested):
location ^~ "/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/([A-Za-z0-9-/_]+)" {
try_files $uri admin/index.php?hotelname=$1&do=$2&$args;
}
location ^~ "(([A-Za-z0-9-/]+)+)" {
try_files $uri /admin/index.php?hotelname=$1;
}
location = / {
rewrite ^ /index.php;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
}
If direct access on given $urishould never happen, then remove that part from the try_files. Now I'm also unsure of your second regex (([A-Za-z0-9-/]+)+), why not using:
location ^~ "/([A-Za-z0-9-/])+"
Or
location ^~ "/([A-Za-z0-9-])+/"
So there's maybe something I do not see, even in your apache rewrites.