Hi all

I have the following rewrite working perfectly on an Apache based server:

RewriteRule my-special-WP-category/(.*)$ ?my-ugly-variable=$1

However no matter what variation of the following I put in /usr/local/nginx/sites-available/mysite.com on my Nginx Server I get no redirect

if (!-e $request_filename) {
 rewrite  my-special-WP-category/(.*)$  ?my-ugly-variable=$1  last;
  break;
}

By placing the rewrite code before the include /usr/local/nginx/conf/wordpress_params.super_cache; line I get a 500 Internal Server Error and in the logs this: "the rewritten URI has a zero length"

The only other thing I have seen in the sites' logs is the following error which makes me think that Nginx is looking for a real directory instead of the WP virtual one with one of my desperate varations!

"/home/public_html/subdomain.mysite.com/public/my-special-WP-category/index.php" is not found

Many thanks for ANY help with this

i might suggest using the full URI path's in your rewrite in nginx.
So something like
if (!-e $request_filename) {
rewrite my-special-WP-category/(.*)$ /index.php?my-ugly-variable=$1 last;
break;
}

Or what ever script you are executing in the redirect.

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Sory man, thanks so much for this that simple piece of code has FINALLY sorted this.

Thank again and apologies for the first over the top reply