On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 12:48:56AM +0530, Mohammed Ashraf wrote:

Hi there,

Welcome. There's lots of good information at http://nginx.org/ and http://wiki.nginx.org/ -- you can check there to understand what the suggested configuration will do.

I'd use a rewrite in the nginx config file, so when someone requests /url, they are invited to instead request /new/url; and when they request /new/url, they are given the content from the new directory.

Combining this example with the question in the Subject: line, I suggest:

location / { rewrite ^ /test$request_uri? permanent; }

location /test/ { }

See, for example, http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpRewriteModule#rewrite for what the rewrite directive does; and http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpCoreModule#location for how the location blocks are matched.

Depending on what else you want the server to do, you will want more location blocks; and you may want to add "^~" to one of the above locations.

Good luck with it,

f