How to merge two nginx rewrite rules into one?

Question

nginx rewrite rule:

rewrite ^/([a-z]+)$ /?type=$1 last;
rewrite ^/([a-z]+)/page/([0-9]+)$ /?type=$1&page=$2 last;

can I merge these two rules into one?

Answer 1

Haven't tested it but something like this might work..

^/([a-z]+)/?(page/([0-9]+)|)/?

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Edit : here's the full block:

location ~ /(blog)/?(page/([0-9]+)|)/? {
  default_type 'text/plain';
  echo "$1";
  echo "$2";
  echo "$3";
}

Going to /blog produces

blog

Going to /blog/page/3 produces

blog
page/3
3

$3 will have the page number if it's been specified otherwise it will be empty.