Linux – How serve files in folder with case insensitive on linux with nginx

case-insensitivelinuxnginx

I'm having a little problem. I need serve files with case insensitive for a folder, i use nginx:

Original:
https://example.com/media/catalog/product/b/t/bt2501_brandy.jpg
https://example.com/media/catalog/product/p/r/PR3027GUN_1.JPG

This picture above would works with this way (case insensitive):
https://example.com/media/catalog/product/b/t/BT2501_BRANDY.jpg or
https://example.com/media/catalog/product/b/t/bt2501_Brandy.jpg or
https://example.com/media/catalog/product/b/t/bt2501_Brandy.JPG
https://example.com/media/catalog/product/p/r/pr3027gun_1.JPG

Some idea for me?

I know linux is case sensitive. But i can deal with this with nginx?

Thanks

Best Answer

location ~* ^/media/catalog/product/ {
    # The tilde and asterisks ensure that this location will
    # be matched case insensitive. nginx does not support
    # setting absolutely everything to be case insensitive.
    # The reason is easy, it's costly in terms of performance.
}

Related Solutions

Nginx Rewrite – How to Implement Case Insensitive Rewrite Rules

I just had (and fixed) this same problem and ended up here trying to find the answer. The nginx documentation (http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_rewrite_module.html), does not clearly state that the ~* only works inside an if statement, but apparently, that is the case.

To get case-insensitive regular expression matching for an ngnix URL rewrite outside of an if statement, I had to use the Apache/Perl style:

rewrite "(?i)foobar" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0 redirect;

See http://perldoc.perl.org/perlretut.html (search for insensitive). It also seems that prefixing (?i) outside of a specific capture group makes it apply to the whole search string. Note: This does NOT seem to work with "^(?i)foobar" because it seems that the "^" is implied.

Just to be sure, though, and to make any future rewrites easier to maintain and less ambiguous if you end up doing a bunch of them, you may want to do something like this:

location /foobar {
     rewrite "(?i)" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0 redirect;
}

Hope this helps...

Nginx redirect without trailing slashes AND case-insensitive

It's just a regex, so you could match on that basis.

rewrite /[Gg][Ii][Ss](.*) https://....

There's probably a cleaner way to do this, but it doesn't come to mind right now.

Best Answer

Related Solutions

Nginx Rewrite – How to Implement Case Insensitive Rewrite Rules

Nginx redirect without trailing slashes AND case-insensitive

Related Topic