Sorry, I didn't realize that this was plain-text only... forgive me for the HTML in the last post. Here's my post in plain-text.

I'm really interested in utilizing Nginx on my Slicehost account, but my main holdout is understanding how to adjust .htaccess files so that my site can function properly on Nginx.

I've made an attempt, but I'm just not a regular expressions guy and am new to this part altogether. Unfortuantely, I'm having a difficult time moving over to Nginx rewrite rules. I'll post my attempt at the Nginx rewrite rules, but first I'm going to post the mod_rewrite rules of my Symphony CMS site, so we have the direct comparison. If anyone knows Nginx... your help is much appreciated!!!

Here's the regular mod_rewrite for the index.php in document root folder for Symphony...

Original Symphony 2 .htaccess

### DO NOT APPLY RULES WHEN REQUESTING "favicon.ico" RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} favicon.ico [NC] RewriteRule .* - [S=14]

### IMAGE RULES RewriteRule ^image\/3\/([0-9]+)\/([0-9]+)\/([1-9])\/([a-fA-f0-9]{3,6})(\/(0|1))?\/(.+)\.(jpg|gif|jpeg|png|bmp)$ /symphony/image.php?param=3:$1:$2:$3:$4:$6:$7.$8 [L] RewriteRule ^image\/2\/([0-9]+)\/([0-9]+)\/([1-9])(\/(0|1))?\/(.+)\.(jpg|gif|jpeg|png|bmp)$ /symphony/image.php?param=2:$1:$2:$3:0:$5:$6.$7 [L] RewriteRule ^image\/1\/([0-9]+)\/([0-9]+)(\/(0|1))?\/(.+)\.(jpg|gif|jpeg|png|bmp)$ /symphony/image.php?param=1:$1:$2:0:0:$4:$5.$6 [L] RewriteRule ^image(\/(0|1))?\/(.+)\.(jpg|gif|jpeg|png|bmp)$ /symphony/image.php?param=0:0:0:0:0:$2:$3.$4 [L]

### CHECK FOR TRAILING SLASH - Will ignore files RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)/$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /$1/ [L,R=301]

### MAIN REWRITE - This will ignore directories RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^(.*)\/$ /index.php?page=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

### CHECK FOR TRAILING SLASH - Will ignore files RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)/$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /$1/ [L,R=301]

### MAIN REWRITE - This will ignore directories RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^(.*)\/$ /index.php?page=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

My Nginx attempt

I don't think this is right, but would love to get some input.

location / { if ($request_filename="favicon.ico") { rewrite ^(.*)$ break; }

### IMAGE RULES rewrite ^image\/3\/([0-9]+)\/([0-9]+)\/([1-9])\/([a-fA-f0-9]{3,6})(\/(0|1))?\/(.+)\.(jpg|gif|jpeg|png|bmp)$ /symphony/image.php?param=3:$1:$2:$3:$4:$6:$7.$8 last; rewrite ^image\/2\/([0-9]+)\/([0-9]+)\/([1-9])(\/(0|1))?\/(.+)\.(jpg|gif|jpeg|png|bmp)$ /symphony/image.php?param=2:$1:$2:$3:0:$5:$6.$7 last; rewrite ^image\/1\/([0-9]+)\/([0-9]+)(\/(0|1))?\/(.+)\.(jpg|gif|jpeg|png|bmp)$ /symphony/image.php?param=1:$1:$2:0:0:$4:$5.$6 last; rewrite ^image(\/(0|1))?\/(.+)\.(jpg|gif|jpeg|png|bmp)$ /symphony/image.php?param=0:0:0:0:0:$2:$3.$4 last;

### CHECK FOR TRAILING SLASH - Will ignore files if (!-f $request_filename) { rewrite ^/(.+)$ /$1/ permanent; }

### MAIN REWRITE - This will ignore directories if (!-d $request_filename) { rewrite ^/(.+)$ /index.php?url=$1 last; } }