How can I port an Apache RewriteCond and RewriteRule to ngnix?

Robert Campbell

11/27/23, 7:21 PM

I have to convert an Apache reverse-proxy configuration that uses RewriteCond and RewriteRule, to Nginx.

How can I convert something like this to nginx configuration?

(this is in the main/only <VirtualHost *:443> block)

    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^stagingapi$ [NC]
    RewriteRule ^/(.*) https://staging-zone.mydomain.com/$1 [R,L]

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Mircea Vutcovici

11/27/23, 8:04 PM

The RewriteRule has as first parameter regular expression which is matching all URI starting with / and as second parameter a substitution, which redirects "stagingapi" site (R flag) to https://staging-zone.mydomain.com/

Try with something like:

server{
  listen 443;
  server_name stagingapi;
  return 301 $scheme://staging-zone.mydomain.com$request_uri permanent;
}

You can replace $scheme with https if you want to redirect all the time to HTTPS to have the same behavior as in apache.

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Robert Campbell

11/28/23, 10:30 PM

Thanks Mircea that helped alot.

Mircea Vutcovici

11/29/23, 5:17 AM

You are welcome!

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