nginx 2 conflicting rewrite rules - please help!

Hey guys - I've been struggling for so long with this problem, and have absoloutley no idea what's going on Any help would be apprieciated.

I have the following 2 rules:

rewrite ^(/posts.php) /controllers/read/C_ReadAllPosts.php?type=$arg_type last; break;
rewrite ^/(.+)/?$ /controllers/read/C_ReadBlogURL.php?url=$1 last; break;

Only the rule which comes first ever works. Taking out the break; statements causes only the last one to ever work. Making the second rule more explicit by matching [^\.php] also does not help.

I don't know why this is - the rule which doesn't work returns a 404, even though it shouldn't - and is available if I put that rule first.

Thank you so much for any help.

Tom

 

Hi Tom,

The () aren't necessary in the first rule, but that is just a detail.
The most important thing is removing the break;

I tried this and it works(test1.html and test2.html have different content and I know when is entering in each rule):

rewrite ^/posts.php /test1.html?type=$arg_type last;
rewrite ^/(.+)/?$ /test2.html?url=$1 last;

Code (markup):

So, for you this should work:

rewrite ^/posts.php /controllers/read/C_ReadAllPosts.php?type=$arg_type last;
rewrite ^/(.+)/?$ /controllers/read/C_ReadBlogURL.php?url=$1 last;

Code (markup):