On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 03:17:46PM +0000, Andrew Andonopoulos wrote: Hi there,
> Regarding the map, can you please explain which values the variables $one and > $the_md5 will have? Yes, but: what happens when you try it? On a test system: location /vod/ { return 200 "one is $one; the_md5 is $the_md5;\n"; } and request something like /vod/abc/123/hls/def/ghi.html I think that the best way to learn and understand nginx, is to use nginx. > My understanding of map directive is, request_uri will have the whole URI and > will try to match it as per the regex. If there is a match then will pass the > value to $one which will pass it to $the_md5? Mostly correct. "map" will compare its first argument (in this case, the expansion of the variable $request_uri) with all of the "key" entries in its third argument (the map) -- in this case, just one regex and one default. If the regex matches, all of the (?P<>) named variables are populated (because that's what a regex does). Then "map" will set the variable named in its second argument ($the_md5) to the matching value in the map -- which is the value of $one, in this case. So - it is the regex engine that sets the value of $one (and $the_time, etc); and then "map" sets the value of $the_md5 to the current value of $one. f -- Francis Daly fran...@daoine.org _______________________________________________ nginx mailing list nginx@nginx.org http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx