rewrite rule nginx for everything in a domain

Iron Dude

6/20/23, 9:33 AM

I'd like to make a rewrite of my domain name.domain.tld to another URL. I managed to do this but if I type name.domain.tld/dashboard or anything after the tld I still get the content like without the rule.

In the config I have rewrite ^/$ https://new.url redirect;

So how can I do a redirect no matter what is being typed in after name.domain.tld?

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Ivan Shatsky

6/20/23, 10:24 AM

Do you want to preserve an existing request URI (making `name.domain.tld/dashboard` redirected to `new.domain.tld/dashboard`) or redirect every request to the `new.domain.tld/`?

Iron Dude

6/20/23, 10:44 AM

No. The original URL is something totally different. Like `old.url` or `old.url/dashboard` but I want people to be redirected to `new.url` if they type in `old.url/$` so no matter what subdir of `old.url` they use.

Ivan Shatsky

6/20/23, 10:51 AM

What is that `new.url` in your rewrite rule? Where is the domain name in it? What do you mean by `old.url/$`? Do you mean you want to rewrite URIs ending with a dollar sign? Please, make your question more clarified.

Iron Dude

6/20/23, 10:58 AM

The $ is just a wildcard. So I want URL A (the old one) to be redireted to URL B no matter what subdirectory the person using URL A is using. With what I have the redirect only works when no subdirs are being used.

Ivan Shatsky

6/20/23, 11:00 AM

So you want to redirect an URL within the same domain? You do not change the domain with redirection?

Iron Dude

6/20/23, 11:05 AM

No. As I said. The old URL ist something like `old.url` and may have some subdirs and I want ALL requests that are being made to the old url no matter if a subdir is given or not redirected to a total different URL that has nothing to do whatsoever with the old URL.

Ivan Shatsky

6/20/23, 11:24 AM

Ok, it is that `https://new.url` that confused me. You can use a redirect address in a form `<scheme>://domain/url` or simply `url` but not the `<scheme>://url`. You are using `^` start-of-the-string anchor and `$` end-of-the-string anchor making your `^/$` regex matching only the root `/` request and nothing else. Use `rewrite ^ /new/url;` to match any request (any string has a beginning, yeah?)

Iron Dude

6/20/23, 11:32 AM

That did it. Thank you!

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EN: rewrite rule nginx for everything in a domain

TH: เขียนกฎ nginx ใหม่สำหรับทุกอย่างในโดเมน

RO: rescrieți regula nginx pentru tot ce este dintr-un domeniu

RU: переписать правило nginx для всего в домене

VI: viết lại quy tắc nginx cho mọi thứ trong miền

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