How to Redirect URLs using Nginx

If the need has arisen to redirect traffic from one URL to another, then you’ve come to the right place. We at Tech-Assured, provide network support as a part of our Server Management service.

Today we will show you how to Redirect URL’s using Nginx…

 

There are different types of Redirects but the common forms are Temporary & Permanent.

• Temporary Redirects:
  This is really helpful, especially while performing maintenance in your company.

• Permanent Redirects:
  This is helpful, when you have moved the content from your site and you don’t want your URL to access it anymore.

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In Nginx, you can add following lines in the server configuration file:

For Temporary Redirects,

rewrite ^/oldlocation$ http://www.newdomain.com/newlocation redirect

For Permanent Redirects,

rewrite ^/oldlocation$ http://www.newdomain.com/newlocation permanent

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In the document root directory of your site:

/etc/nginx/sites-available/directory_name.conf

 

Note: /html if you have one site on the server.

/domain.com if you have multiple sites on server

You can also create new file name html.conf or domain.com.conf

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server { # Temporary redirect to an individual page rewrite ^/oldpage$ http://www.domain.com/newpage redirect; }

 server { # Permanent redirect to www server_name domain.com; rewrite ^/(.*)$ http://www.newdomain.com/$1 permanent; }
server { # Permanent redirect to new URL server_name olddomain.com; rewrite ^/(.*)$ http://newdomain.com/$1 permanent; } server { # Redirect to HTTPS listen      80; server_name domain.com www.domain.com; return      301 https://example.com$request_uri; }