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Miko
Asked: 2011-07-03 22:58:13 +0800 CST

nginx user_agent redirect

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I want to redirect IE users to a static file, regardless of what page they were trying to reach.

My code is inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* msie ) { rewrite ^.+$ /msie.html last; }

No matter what I try, I either get a 404 or a 500 Internal Server Error. Am I doing this correctly?

rewrite nginx

2 Answers

  1. Above answer doesn't work any more for IE11 because string "MSIE" isn't available any more in user agent string.

    Sample IE11: 

    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko

    Sample IE9:

    Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/5.0)
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  2. Best Answer

    Found a way to do it by doing:

    try_files $uri /msie.html;
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