How to use Nginx to separate variables with slashes - php

Question

I'd like to be able to use
www.example.com/profiles/1234567890
instead of
www.example.com/profiles?id=1234567890
but was unable to figure out how to do so.
I found an apache equivalent here: Turn text after slashes into variables with HTACCESS but I don't know how to get it to work in Nginx. I only need the one variable which is id.
Additionally, is it possible to do a rewrite such that
www.example.com/id/1234567890
points to
www.example.com/profiles/1234567890
but the url doesn't change?
Nginx config
server {
server_name www.domain.com;
rewrite ^(.*) http://domain.com$1 permanent;
}
server {
listen 80;
server_name domain.com;
root /var/www/domain.com/public;
index index.php;
access_log /var/www/domain.com/access.log;
error_log /var/www/domain.com/error.log;
rewrite ^/profiles?id=(.*)$ /profiles/$1 last;
rewrite ^/id/(.*)$ /profiles/$1 last;
# unless the request is for a valid file, send to bootstrap
if (!-e $request_filename)
{
#rewrite ^(.+)$ /index.php?q=domain.com last;
rewrite ^(.*)$ $1.php last;
}
# catch all
error_page 404 /index.php;
# Directives to send expires headers and turn off 404 error logging.
location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico)$ {
expires max;
log_not_found off;
access_log off;
}
location /phpmyadmin {
root /usr/share/;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
location ~ ^/phpmyadmin/(.+\.php)$ {
try_files $uri =404;
root /usr/share/;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
}
location ~* ^/phpmyadmin/(.+\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico|html|xml|txt))$ {
root /usr/share/;
}
}
location /phpMyAdmin {
rewrite ^/* /phpmyadmin last;
}
location = /favicon.ico {
log_not_found off;
access_log off;
}
location = /robots.txt {
allow all;
log_not_found off;
access_log off;
}
## Disable viewing .htaccess & .htpassword
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
location / {
# This is cool because no php is touched for static content.
# include the "?$args" part so non-default permalinks doesn't break when using query string
try_files $uri $uri/ #extensionless-php?$args;
}
location #extensionless-php {
rewrite ^(.*)$ $1.php last;
}
# use fastcgi for all php files
location ~ \.php$
{
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
#fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
# Some default config
fastcgi_connect_timeout 20;
fastcgi_send_timeout 180;
fastcgi_read_timeout 180;
fastcgi_buffer_size 128k;
fastcgi_buffers 4 256k;
fastcgi_busy_buffers_size 256k;
fastcgi_temp_file_write_size 256k;
fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
fastcgi_ignore_client_abort off;
}
}

Answer 1

Inside the server block of your configuration file, try adding this:
rewrite ^/profiles?id=(.*)$ /profiles/$1 last;
rewrite ^/id/(.*)$ /profiles/$1 last;
Restart nginx. It should work.
More information can be found here: http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_rewrite_module.html

Answer 2

I think you put the rules swapped, try something like
rewrite ^/(?:profiles|id)/(.*) /profiles?id=$1 last;

Answer 3

For anyone looking for the answer, this worked:
rewrite ^/profiles/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ /profile.php?id=$1;
rewrite ^/id/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ /profile.php?id=$1;