Quite possible - You'd need to use the rewrite module to pass it as an argument. http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpRewriteModule http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpRew

Quite possible - You'd need to use the rewrite module to pass it as an argument. http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpRewriteModule http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpRewriteModule Maybe something like this... location / { rewrite ^/channel/(.+)$ /channel/?id=$1 last; } location /channel/{ #stuff set $push_channel_id $arg_id; #/?id=239aff3 or somesuch }