Nginx rewrite POST as GET, and redirect

Question

Is it possible for a POST request to http://me.com

to be converted to a GET request such as http://me.com/api.php?some_static_param=yippee;<rest of post data as get request> using Nginx?

Answer 1

You could do this using a scripting language such as Lua or Perl but as these are relatively obscure and Lua need to be installed and a module compiled, why not just do it using the scripting language you already have in place and probably quite familiar with ... PHP?.

Setup your index file to access the $_POST array if it exists, build the request string and send a location header to redirect the user.