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Federico Krum
6,625 PointsWhat is the equivalent to the .htaccess step for nginx ? I am not using apache.
My server has nginx. I am stack with this.
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Seth Kroger
56,413 PointsThe Slim docs have some instructions on how to configure nginx: http://docs.slimframework.com/routing/rewrite/#nginx
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Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,425 PointsNot a direct answer to your question, but the nginx site recommends against using htaccess due to the performance hit. See https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/start/topics/examples/likeapache-htaccess/