I'm going to try this myself - but I'm not sure it can be done.

Our website is structured as

/en-us/stuff /ru-ru/stuff

etc.

However, the underlying filesystem does not have these virtual locale paths. It basically is "/stuff"

I want to be able to use

if (!-e $request_filename) { rewrite ^/(.*) /foo.php?q=$request_uri last; }

or

error_page 404 = /foo.php?q=$request_uri;

However, it is trying to use /en-us/stuff for the request filename instead of just /stuff - is there some way I can set a variable and remove a portion of the URI, so it is something like

set $customvar someregexhere; if(!-e $customvar) { rewrite ^/(.*) /foo.php?q=$request_uri last; }

I tried doing a rewrite to remove the /en-us/ etc... but that does not appear to change the $request_filename (from what I can tell, I am still trying to mess with it some more) - I still need the original URI or some way to grab the locale code inside of PHP, so I can't strip that off and forget about it completely.

Anyone have any ideas?