nginx reformat request_uri to access real file path

Question

I want serve static files with nginx.

User will request like this format:

http://test.com/files/ea624cf923ea

Actual file location will like this

/files/ea/62/4c/f923ea

How can I serve this file?

I'm stuck with this:

How to split request_uri and send reformatted request_uri or some variable to try_files

Answer 1

This should work

location /files/ {
    rewrite "^(/files/..)(..)(..)(.{6})$" $1/$2/$3/$4 break;
}