Allow simple rewriting

[rgarrigue]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I painfully came up with a raw nginx conf for a simple old domain / uri scheme to new one

 server {
     listen 0.0.0.0:80;
     server_name documentation.old.domain;
     rewrite (.*).html(.*) $1$2;
     rewrite (.*)/en/stable(.*) $1$2;
     return 301 https://new.domain/uc-doc$uri;
 }

I can't implement this one.

Describe the solution you'd like

Something that work. Outside of a homemade raw Ansible copy:

Describe alternatives you've considered

Tried quickly, ended up with this mess that's never gonna work with the rewrite after the proxy pass (or so I believe)

    listen 0.0.0.0:80;
    server_name documentation.old.domain;
    location ^ {
        proxy_pass https://new.domain/uc-doc;
        rewrite rewrite (.*).html(.*) $1$2;;
        rewrite rewrite (.*)/en/stable(.*) $1$2;;
        proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    }

[alessfg]

Sorry to hear that @rgarrigue!

Did you try using the custom_options parameter? You should be able to pass your whole block as is using it.

At any rate let me try to figure a way to implement your config. If there is I can use this as a sample NGINX config to Ansible config doc, if there's not I will find out what's missing/needs to be fixed.

[rgarrigue]

Hi @alessfg , sorry for the delay giving you feedback.

I didn't tried the custom_options, wasn't aware of it, now that I solved it the "bad" way, pushing a raw file in the conf.d folder. I don't want to spend more time on this t the moment. Later on maybe, when I'll have to generalize this kind of configuration.

[alessfg]

@rgarrigue do you by any chance have a copy or remember the playbook you were using when you got the configuration mentioned in the original issue?

[alessfg]

I added a test to check whether the rewrite variable was working correctly and it looks like it is? 🤷‍♂️
Closing this for the time being, but feel free to reopen the issue if you think I'm missing something.