Substitutions

Description

nginx_substitutions_filter - a filter module which can do both regular expression and fixed string substitutions on response bodies. This module is quite different from the NGINX’s native Substitution Module. It scans the output chains buffer and matches string line by line, just like Apache’s mod_substitute.

Note

This module is not distributed with the NGINX source. See the installation instructions.

Example

location / {
    subs_filter_types text/html text/css text/xml;
    subs_filter st(\d*).example.com $1.example.com ir;
    subs_filter a.example.com s.example.com;
}

Directives

subs_filter_types

Syntax:subs_filter_types mime-type [ mime-types ]
Default:text/html
Context:http, server, location

subs_filter_types is used to specify which content types should be checked for subs_filter.

This module just works with plain text. If the response is compressed, it can’t uncompress the response and will ignore this response. This module can be compatible with gzip filter module. But it will not work with proxy compressed response. You can disable the compressed response like this:

proxy_set_header Accept-Encoding "";

subs_filter

Syntax:subs_filter source_str destination_str [gior]
Default:g
Context:http, server, location

subs_filter allows replacing source string (regular expression or fixed) in the NGINX response with destination string. Substitution text may contain variables. More than one substitution rules per location is supported. The meaning of the third flags are:

  • g: Replace all the match strings.
  • i: Perform a case-insensitive match.
  • o: Just replace the first one.
  • r: The pattern is treated as a regular expression, default is fixed string.

Installation

To install, get the source with subversion:

git clone git://github.com/yaoweibin/ngx_http_substitutions_filter_module.git

and then compile NGINX with the following option:

./configure --add-module=/path/to/module

Changelog

06/30/2012: Changes with nginx_substitutions_filter 0.6.0

  • refactored this module

08/11/2010: Changes with nginx_substitutions_filter 0.5.2

  • optimizations
  • fixed a bug of buffer overlap
  • fixed a segment fault bug when output chain return NGX_AGAIN.
  • fixed a bug about last buffer with no linefeed. This may cause segment fault. Thanks for Josef Fröhle

04/15/2010: Changes with nginx_substitutions_filter 0.5

  • refactored the source structure, create branches of dev
  • fixed a bug of small chunk of buffers causing lose content
  • fixed the bug of last_buf and the NGINX’s compatibility above 0.8.25
  • fixed a bug with unwanted capture config error in fix string substitution
  • added feature of regex captures

12/23/2009: Changes with nginx_substitutions_filter 0.4

  • fixed many bugs

02/04/2009: Changes with nginx_substitutions_filter 0.3

  • initial public release

Reporting a bug

Questions/patches may be directed to Weibin Yao, yaoweibin@gmail.com.