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Permalink Issue in Wordpress (migrated from Blogger) in LEMP stack

  • Posted July 22, 2014

I had once moved my blogger site to wordpress. Till then I had to use the following in .htaccess file.

RedirectMatch 301 ^/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/([^/]+).html$ http://mywpsite.com/$3

Now, after moving my site to Nginx, I could not find a way to implement the above rule so that my old permalinks are maintained in new environment also.

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a.icbal • August 8, 2014

The solution above worked partially.

Example:-

http://mywpsite.com/2011/08/one-of-my-post-link.html -> http://mywpsite.com/one-of-my-post-link/ (Success) http://www.mywpsite.com/2011/08/one-of-my-post-link.html -> http://www.anotherdomain.com/2011/08/one-of-my-post-link.html (failure)

Andrew SB • July 22, 2014

The Nginx rewrite docs state:

Note: for curly braces( { and } ), as they are used both in regexes and for block control, to avoid conflicts, regexes with curly braces are to be enclosed with double quotes (or single quotes).

So try,

rewrite "^/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/([^/]+).html$" http://mywpsite.com/$3 permanent;
a.icbal • July 22, 2014

Here it is: http://tny.cz/efcffa7f

a.icbal • July 22, 2014

I added the code inside the server block but getting error.

nginx -t

nginx: [emerg] directive “rewrite” is not terminated by “;” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/wordpress:67

Although, the semi-colon is placed in the code above.

Kamal Nasser • July 22, 2014

You can use nginx’s rewrite directive to implement that:

rewrite ^/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/([^/]+).html$ http://mywpsite.com/$3 permanent;