How to 301 Redirect an Old Post to a New Post with Nginx (WordPress)

Hi everyone,

Server runs on Ubuntu 16.04.1 x64. Using WordPress. If more info needed, I’d be happy to provide.

I’m trying to redirect an old post to a new one but I’m having a lot of issues. I tried many codes and none worked so far.

Since the server uses Nginx , obviously I can’t use the usual 301 redirect codes that work with Apache.

I used this code a while back to redirect from http to https version for the whole site.

# BEGIN redirecting www to non www version
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} =www.example.com
RewriteRule (.*) https://example.com/$1 [R=302,L]
# END redirecting www to non www version

It worked for that, so I tried modifying it and using it to also 301 an old post to a new one but it doesn’t work. There are no errors, but it just doesn’t work.

I also tried these codes (found by searching on Google) and almost all of them gave me a 500 Internal error for the whole site.

# BEGIN 301 Redirects
Redirect 301 /example.com/oldpost/
https://example.com/newpost/
# END 301 Redirects

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# BEGIN 301 Redirects
rewrite ^/$ https://example.com/oldpost/ permanent;
rewrite ^/(.*)$ https://example.com/newpost/$1 permanent;
# END 301 Redirects

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# BEGIN 301 Redirects
server {
    listen 80;
    server_name https://example.com/oldpost/;
    return 301 $scheme:example.com/newpost/$request_uri;
}
# END 301 Redirects

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# BEGIN 301 Redirects
server {
    listen 80;
    listen [::]:80;
    hostname https://example.com/oldpost/
https://example.com/oldpost/;
    return 301 https://example.com/newpost/$request_uri;
}
# END 301 Redirects

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I know enough to research, find and copy-paste a piece fo code but beyond that I’m at a loss. I would appreciate any help.

Thanks very much in advance.