Nginx search query rewrite rule

Question

Currently I have my rewrite queries like so

  rewrite ^/category/category-name /index.php?route=information/category-name last;

This works fine for my pages that are static and i know the name to. The problem i run into is whenever i want to modify my opencart search route

Current URL

/index.php?route=product/search&filter_name=nike

Preffered URL

/search/nike

I've tried doing my previous way but nothing happens.

Answer 1

Is this what you want?

rewrite ^/search/(.*)$ /index.php?route=product/search&filter_name=$1 last;

The rewrite directive is documented here. And a useful resource for regular expressions.