Hi Scott. If you or your framework uses REQUEST_URI you don't need request rewrite feature. Using REQUEST_URI and request rewrite feature are two oposite solutions for the same problem. To mimic nginx's try_files do something like this:
location match "/hello/.*" { .... root "/index.php" .... } It is not obvious from man page but file can act as document root :) Then in that file, index.php in this case, you can route requests by parsing $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] what your framework probably does. Ve.