Blog clean URL rewrite rules for nginx

Drew McLellan said:

When you say "the rules" - what are you trying to do? The rewrite rules you need will depend entire on how you've structured your site.

It's literally the nginx equivalent of RewriteRule ^blog/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)$ /blog/post.php?s=$1 [L] I need.

The site uses the standard /blog/{postSlug} setting.

It's version 1.6.2

Thanks Drew.

We tried that but it didn't work properly. The blog page was visible, but the posts weren't.

So we played around a little more:

location /blog/ {
      #try_files $uri $uri/ /blog/post.php?$args;
      #rewrite ^blog/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)$ /$1/post.php?s=$2;
      rewrite ^/([^/]*)/(.*)$ /blog/post.php?s=$2;
      index index.php;
}

As it stands, we can get either the blog page or the post page working, but not both at the same time.

Any ideas?

Thanks for your help Drew; it's much appreciated. I'll keep digging. Once I find the fix, I'll let you know so you can put it in the docs :)

Ben, or anybody for that matter, do you have a working nginx solution for the simple blog rewrite rule please?

I have made a working solution for NGINX rewriting. I have altered the way it works for the Events app, but you could apply this to the Blog:

location /event/ {
        rewrite ^/event/(.*)$ /events/event.php?s=$1 last;
    }

Here what I'm doing is as follows:

Perch Events index page is in /events/index.php

Perch Events event page is in /events/event.php?s=slug

I'm rewriting /event/slug to point to /events/event.php?s=slug

Notice the singluar event (without the 's'). I found I was getting issues redirecting in the same folder, thats why I used /event/ instead.

So now /event/2016-07-14-penchant-16-gullivers-nq

...directs to /events/event.php?s=2016-07-14-penchant-16-gullivers-nq