Rerouting requests from site.org/old to site.org/new in nginx

James Bradbury

6/14/23, 12:21 PM

I have a site deployed at www.site.org. I have routes at www.site.org/old/article and I want to automatically redirect people to www.site.org/new/article. Ideally this would work as a wildcard to capture anything and not just article.

I'm not great at Nginx so any advice would be useful on best practices. I have seen a few people do it with location blocks with a mixture of return 301 woven in as well as straight up rewrites.

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Ivan Shatsky

6/21/23, 4:08 PM

Assuming you want an HTTP 301 permanent redirect rather than serving the old URL like it is a new one, use

rewrite ^/old(/.*) /new$1 permanent;

If I am wrong and you want to serve both /old/article and /new/article the same way without a redirection, use the same rewrite rule without the permanent flag (should be placed at the server context, not the location one!):

rewrite ^/old(/.*) /new$1;

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EN: Rerouting requests from site.org/old to site.org/new in nginx

TH: เปลี่ยนเส้นทางคำขอจาก site.org/old เป็น site.org/new ใน nginx

RO: Redirecționarea solicitărilor de la site.org/old la site.org/new în nginx

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