Nginx redirect path to different path

Julien

11/26/22, 3:53 PM

I'm trying to redirect urls with Ninx but i'm struggling to get it right:

example.com/{dynamic1}/foo/bar/{dynamic2} to example.com/{dynamic1}/bar/{dynamic2}

basically i'm trying to remove the /foo/ portion of the url.

i've tried the following:

location ~* ^/(.*)/foo/bar/(.*)$ {
  return 302 ^/$1/bar/$2?$args;
}

and also:

location ~ ^/([^/]*)/foo/bar/(.*)$ {
  return 302 ^/$1/bar/$2?$args;
}

but this throws the error 414 Request-URI Too Large and the url ends up being (shortened for clarity):

dynamic1/cams/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/%5E/dynamic1/bar/dynamic2?

What am I doing wrong?

Note that once i get this right i will replace 302 with 301.

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Michael Hampton

11/26/22, 4:14 PM

You have placed a caret at the beginning of the destination URL path that you appear to have intended to redirect to. This does not belong there, and it is why %5E shows up repeatedly.

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EN: Nginx redirect path to different path

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RU: Nginx перенаправляет путь на другой путь

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