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How to redirect a some files from a subdomain to corresponding files of a domain in Nginx?

Posted May 11, 2014 3.6k views
I want to 301 redirect a bunch of files from a subdomain to another domain. This is my .htaccess file, can someone supply the code that works with nginx RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^media\.ahemahem\.com$ [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.media\.ahemahem\.com$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ "http\:\/\/www\.ahemahem\.com\/wp\-content\/uploads\/$1" [R=301,L] and where should I add this code? I've set up a A record (media) for the domain (ahemahem.com) at digitalocean and I've set my main domain too. I've installed Wordpress on ahemahem.com using Easy Engine which works on Nginx.
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larry May 12, 2014
Google is an amazing thing. It finds you things like http://winginx.com/en/htaccess that turn your .htaccess rewrites into nginx configuration that looks like this:

# nginx configuration
location / {
if ($http_host ~ "^media\.ahemahem\.com$"){
rewrite ^(.*)$ /"http\:\/www\.ahemahem\.com\/wp\-content\/uploads\/$1" redirect;
}
}

It goes in your config file.
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talwarsaksham May 12, 2014
Yeah, already tried that stuff which didn't work and resulted in my server failing and all my sites went down. So I asked here. It was supposed to go in the nginx.conf files right? In the main /var/www/site.com/nginx.conf or etc/nginx/nginx.conf? I tried on both. In site.com it doesnt work where as in other he server crashes.

I've pointed media.ahemahem.com to my droplet ip. Do I need to do anything else?
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asb May 12, 2014
@talwarsaksham: The location block needs to be inside of the server block. What were the actual errors you were seeing?
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