How to rewrite location in nginx depending on the client-browser's language?

Question

How to rewrite location in nginx depending on the client-browser\'s language?

For example: My browser accept-language is \'uk,ru,en\'. When I request locati

Answer 1

Simple solution, without MapModule and AcceptLanguageModule :

   if ( $http_accept_language ~ ^(..) ) {
         set $lang $1;
   }
   set $args hl=$lang&$args;

Note that the "set $args hl=$lang&$args" sets the desired language code (eg. "en", "fr", "es", etc) in the "hl" query parameter. Of course you can use $lang in other rewriting rules if the query parameter does not fit. Example:

location ~/my/dir/path/ {
          rewrite ^/my/dir/path/ /my/dir/path/$1/ break;
          proxy_pass http://upstream_server;
   }