Change format from htaccess to nginx - .htaccess

Question

I have apache server with htaccess file like this:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^test/\$([^/]+)/([^/]+\.php)$ test/$2?VIRTUAL_DIRECTORY_NAME=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^test/([^/]+)/(.*)$ $1/$2 [L]
And I am trying to convert it for nginx server.
I cant figure out how to transfor virtual directory to correct format.
This is my nginx config file:
server {
listen 80;
listen 443 ssl;
server_name admin.dev;
root "/home/vagrant/admin";
index index.html index.htm index.php;
charset utf-8;
rewrite_log on;
location /api/ {
rewrite ^/api/(.*)$ /api.php?$1 last;
}
location /res_partners/ {
rewrite ^res_partners/\$([^/]+)/([^/]+\.php)$ res_partners/$2?VIRTUAL_DIRECTORY_NAME=$1 last;
}
location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
location = /robots.txt { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
access_log off;
error_log /var/log/nginx/admin.dev-error.log error;
sendfile off;
client_max_body_size 100m;
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_intercept_errors off;
fastcgi_buffer_size 16k;
fastcgi_buffers 4 16k;
fastcgi_connect_timeout 300;
fastcgi_send_timeout 300;
fastcgi_read_timeout 300;
}
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/ssl/admin.dev.crt;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/ssl/admin.dev.key;
}
Any help?
Thanks

Answer 1

The first rule seems to rewrite /test/$something/somescript.php to /test/somescript.php?VIRTUAL_DIRECTORY_NAME=$something and these are literal $ characters. Your location ~ \.php$ { ... } container already matches any URI that ends with .php. So the first rule can be placed at the top of that container:
location ~ \.php$ {
rewrite ^/test/\$([^/]+)/([^/]+\.php)$ /test/$2?VIRTUAL_DIRECTORY_NAME=$1&$args break;
...
}
The second rule seems to rewrite /test/somedir/something to /somedir/something (where something is not a php script).
This can be achieved with a prefix location:
location /test/ {
rewrite ^/test/([^/]+)/(.*)$ /$1/$2;
}