I've seen some limited resources on checking for cookies with Nginx, but I couldn't really find the answer I was looking for, hopefully some of you Nginx masters can give me a hand.
Essentially I have a vhost that I'd like to redirect to a different domain unless the user has a cookie, here is what I've created:
server {
listen 80;
server_name example.com;
if ($http_cookie ~* "dev_cookie" ) {
root /home/deploy/apps/example/current/public;
passenger_enabled on;
rack_env production;
break;
}
rewrite ^/(.*) http://beta.example.com/$1 permanent;
}
But it doesn't seem to work, I get the error:
[emerg]: "root" directive is not allowed here in /opt/nginx/conf/nginx.conf:45
I'm not sure how to proceed here, any ideas guys?
That makes sense. I would define another virtual host (beta.example.com) with that different root folder and upon encountering cookie - do a rewrite
You can't set different roots for a domain conditionally, but you can redirect (rewrite) to another domain conditionally
This guy's example helped me a bit ago http://nicknotfound.com/2009/01/12/iphone-website-with-nginx/
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