Nginx: 301 redirect of specific .php file to directory

peppy

10/20/23, 9:31 PM

I am switching my web server from Apache to Nginx, so I'm pretty new to Nginx. I thought I had the 301 redirect down fine, but I'm having an issue with redirecting an old url /game-of-foobar.php to /games/foobar/. Here is my server block below:

server {
    server_name www.mysite.com;
    root /home/mysite/mysite.com/;
    charset utf-8;

    listen [::]:443 http2 ssl; # managed by Certbot
    listen 443 http2 ssl; # managed by Certbot

    location / {
      try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
    }
    location /blog {
      try_files $uri $uri/ /blog/index.php?q=$uri$args;
    }
    location /blog/wp-admin {
      try_files $uri $uri/ /blog/wp-admin/index.php?$args;
    }

    location /game-of-foobar.php {
      return 301 https://www.mysite/games/foobar/;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
      include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
      fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php8.1-fpm-mysite.sock;
   }

    ssl_certificate ...
    ssl_certificate_key ...
}

When I visit "/game-of-foobar.php", I receive a 404 error. What is the correct way to do this?

Thanks

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Richard Smith

10/21/23, 6:39 AM

See [how Nginx processes a request](http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/request_processing.html#simple_php_site_configuration). You should use `location = /game-of-foobar.php`

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