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javipas
Asked: 2011-08-19 03:51:55 +0800 CST

How to quick and easy remove part of an URL in Nginx with HttpRewriteModule?

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I know about the HttpRewriteModule, but I don't really know how to handle regex and I would need to redirect all URLs within a certain directory to another, specifically:

From: example.com/component/tag/whatever

To: example.com/tag/whatever

Could some one tell me how to do this in Nginx?

rewrite nginx redirection

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Do you mean something like:

    rewrite ^/component(.*)$ $1 last;
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  2. Depending where you define the rewrite directive you have two ways to implement it:

    A. In the server context

    server {
    ...
    rewrite ^/component(.*)$ $1 last;
    ...
}

    B. In the location context

    location /component {
    rewrite ^/component(.*)$ $1 break;
}

    Teo, why did you change the flag last to break? Because, if this directive is put inside of a location context, the last flag will make nginx to run 10 cycles and return the 500 error.

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