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I'm trying to migrate rewrite rules from apache to nginx. Can anybody explain what 

RewriteRule ^api/.$ - [L]

does?

Rob
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Your comment is correct.

Basically:

[L] means that this should be considered the Last rule for anything matching this condition.

- when used as a target means "do nothing" or "accept as is".

^api/.$ is your regex. ^ means the beginning, $ means the end, and . means "any single character".

tudor -Reinstate Monica-
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  • Thank you. Turns out in the subdirectory /api was a .htaccess file with further rules... This made me confused, as the rule in the question did apparently not behave as I would have expected. So this is kind of a passthrough that the .htaccess in the sub dir can rewrite the original request. – andrekeller Apr 15 '16 at 09:13