Hey,
I’ve been trying lately to do two things on my server:
The server is running on nginx.
My domain (sub.domain.com) is set to get html files at the following root: /usr/share/nginx/html.
The redirect works fine with this added to the /etc/nginx/nginx.conf file:
server {
...
location = / {
return 301 /folderone/foldertwo/;
}
...
}
My problem comes when this happens. It logically redirects the user via a url redirect. So the browser is no longer showing sub.domain.com but sub.domain.com/folderone/foldertwo/, which makes perfect sense. Now what i’m trying to do is rewrite this url and remove those two folders from it to be back at sub.domain.com from a visual point of view.
I’ve tried several things, among:
location = /folderone/foldertwo/ { rewrite... }
location / {
if ($http_host ~ "^sub.domain.com"){
rewrite ^(.*)$ http://sub.domain.com/folderone/foldertwo/$1 redirect;
}
}
location /issue {
rewrite ^/issue(.*) http://$server_name/shop/issues/custom_issue_name$1 permanent;
}
I’m wondering if this can be achieved since i’m trying to redirect to a specific folder and then almost “redirect” to the root.
If possible, should the rules be in the same server directive? Same location block? Is an alias the solution?
Thanks.
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Hi!
In this case, a simple rewrite rule will do.
By default,
rewrite
performs the redirection internally without informing the user about it. As a result of that, the URL will stay ashttp://yourdomain.com/
while actually servinghttp://yourdomain.com/folderone/foldertwo
. Keep in mind that any relative URLs will be relative to/
, not/folderone/foldertwo
.