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Saif Bechan
Asked: 2011-12-18 16:16:59 +0800 CST

Need some help on optimizing 301 redirects in nginx

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I just created a new structure for a website, and I need some help on redirecting to new places.

The code that works is here, but I guess this can be optimized a lot. 

location = /nl {
    rewrite ^ $scheme://$server_name permanent;
}

location = /nl/ {
    rewrite ^ $scheme://$server_name permanent;
}

location = /en {
    rewrite ^ $scheme://$server_name permanent;
}

location = /en/ {
    rewrite ^ $scheme://$server_name permanent;
}

location = /nl/contact {
    rewrite ^ $scheme://$server_name/contact/ permanent;
}

location = /en/contact {
    rewrite ^ $scheme://$server_name/contact/ permanent;
}
nginx 301-redirect

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Rewrites don't have to be in location blocks - and can match against a regex.

    You may have some success with two rewrites: 

    rewrite ^/(en|nl)(/contact)(/?)$ $scheme://$server_name/contact/ permanent;
rewrite ^/(en|nl)(/?)$ $scheme://$server_name permanent;

    Alternatively, you can combine the first 4 and last 2 location blocks with regex matches - but that does chance the matching priority (which may not be very significant).

    (Credit to @Saif Bechan for fixing my original proposition)

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