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How do I redirect a specific URL/ROUTE/PATH/LOCATION to another?

Anm

4/3/24, 7:23 AM

Say my client (current device) wants to connect to a URL, say foo.bar.com/spam/eggs/123, how do I serve or redirect to another specified URL, say 127.0.0.1:8080, and prevent the client from reaching foo.bar.com/spam/eggs/123?

What software can I use?

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Saxtheowl

4/3/24, 8:26 AM

What operating system are you using ? please provide more information

Anm

4/3/24, 1:05 PM

I am using linux @Saxtheowl

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Aleks G

4/3/24, 4:45 PM

If I understand your setup, you have some external domain, example.com, controlled by a 3rd party, with a website running on it, controlled by someone else. You want to allow access to that site generally, but block certain URLs.

There are a few solutions to this; they all boil down to some sort of proxy server. You would proxy web traffic via this proxy server and have a block/redirect list configured in it, which would deal with predefined exceptions.

One free solution is squid caching proxy, which does have redirectors support (here are details in the documentation - https://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/Redirectors). Do note though that it's very much not trivial to set this up correctly and maintain it. No disrespect, but based on the fact that you had to ask this question, I suspect you may struggle to do this successfully.

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Saxtheowl

4/3/24, 1:11 PM

You should use a reverse proxy like Nginx first install it sudo apt-get install nginx then go to the configuration file at /etc/nginx/sites-available/foo.bar.conf and put this inside:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name foo.bar.com;

    location /spam/eggs/123 {
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080;
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    }
}

then enable it with ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/foo.bar.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/

With this configuration, when a client tries to connect to foo.bar.com/spam/eggs/123, Nginx will redirect the request to http://127.0.0.1:8080

then reload Nginx sudo systemctl reload nginx

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Nikita Kipriyanov

4/3/24, 1:30 PM

it is always better not to modify existing distribution-installed files it possible, but to add your own alongside into the configuration drop directory (so a package update won't disturb it, for example). In this case, better put this content into `/etc/nginx/sites-avaliable/foo.bar.conf` and enable it with `ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/foo.bar.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/`. Also restart is not required, reload is enough.

Anm

4/3/24, 3:09 PM

This did not work for me, isnt nginx a reverse proxy? foo.bar.com is not owned by me but I would like to redirect a specific location on it, and allow the rest

user253751

4/3/24, 5:14 PM

I downvoted this because it doesn't answer the question and doesn't work.

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