nginx rewrite for Drupal and bad URLs - drupal

Question

This is a snippet of my nginx configuration for Drupal:
server {
listen 80;
server_name _;
root /home/testing/public_html/staging;
location = /favicon.ico {
log_not_found off;
access_log off;
}
location = /robots.txt {
allow all;
log_not_found off;
access_log off;
}
location = /backup {
deny all;
}
location ~* \.(txt|log)$ {
deny all;
}
location / {
try_files $uri #rewrite;
}
location #rewrite {
rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?q=$1;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
fastcgi_pass unix:/tmp/php-fpm.sock;
}
location ~ ^/sites/.*/files/imagecache/ {
try_files $uri #rewrite;
}
location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico)$ {
rewrite ^/staging/(.*)$ /$1;
expires max;
log_not_found off;
}
}
This works perfectly fine with URLs like these
http://www.testing.com/this/page
http://www.testing.com/that/page
until a hard-coded URL containing "/staging/" is processed. Example:
http://www.testing.com/staging/this/page
This displays the "Page not found" page. I tried adding this line:
location /staging {
rewrite ^/staging/(.*)$ /index.php?q=$1;
}
but this doesn't appear to work at all. How do I catch all URLs with "/staging/" and rewrite them properly so I don't get the "Page not found" error?

Answer 1

You need to add last to trigger another round of location match. Without it, your request is trapped in the /staging location block.
location /staging {
rewrite ^/staging/(.*)$ /index.php?q=$1 last;
}

Answer 2

Check your website configuration by trying this one.
Here is an example of working Nginx configuration
If it doesn't work, post your error logs.