rewrite rules on nginx

Question

as previously i use apache for webservers, but now i want to migrate server to vps and i use nginx server. I have htaccess file here :

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteRule ^/(.*).pdf$ /generator/pdfviewer.php?kiwod=$1 [L]
</IfModule>

and i try to rewrite with this script:

nginx configuration

location / { rewrite ^/(.*).pdf$ /generator/pdfviewer.php?kiwod=$1 break; }

but that script did not work . Please advise me for the correct script and where i put the code on nginx configuration?

please help me guys

Answer 1

Try to put rewrite outside of location, in server:

server {
    listen       80;
    server_name  www.example.org  example.org;
    rewrite  (.*)  http://www.example.org$1;
    }
    ...
}