nginx redirect all directories except one

Question

I'm using nginx 1.0.8 and I'm trying to redirect all visitors from www.mysite.com/dir to google search page http://www.google.com/search?q=dir where dir is a variable, however if dir=="blog"( www.mysite.com/blog) I just want to load the blog content(Wordpress).

Here is my config :

    location / {
        root   html;
        index  index.html index.htm index.php;
    }



    location /blog {
          root   html;
          index index.php;
          try_files $uri $uri/ /blog/index.php;
    }

    location ~ ^/(.*)$ {
          root   html;
          rewrite ^/(.*) http://www.google.com/search?q=$1 permanent;
    }

if I do this even www.mysite.com/blog will be redirected to google search page. If I delete the last location www.mysite.com/blog works great.

From what I've read here: http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpCoreModule#location it seems that the priority will be first on regular expressions and that first regular expression that matches the query will stop the search.

Thanks

Answer 1

location / {
    rewrite ^/(.*)$ http://www.google.com/search?q=$1 permanent;
}

location /blog {
      root   html;
      index index.php;
      try_files $uri $uri/ /blog/index.php;
}

• http://nginx.org/r/location
• http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/request_processing.html