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Asked: 2016-02-04 20:24:23 +0800 CST

NginX redirect domain.com to domain.com/path when accessing domain.com

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So basically I had to proxypass the root of a web server @

/

but the application is hosted at

/ui

When they don't manually type /ui they are presented with the home page of the server, which is static and not being used. I want to initially have Nginx move you to domain.com/ui when you type domain.com then basically just do what it normally does and proxy the application.

nginx

2 Answers

  1. I put this inside my https server block and it redirects the given url, in this example https://subdomain.domain.com to https://subdomain.domain.com/ui and send a permanent flag to remote browser for future reference/speed. I assume that is why atleast

    rewrite ^/$ /ui permanent;

    or

    rewrite ^/$ /path permanent;

    Full Configs:

    server {
   listen         80;
   server_name    subdomain.domain.com;

   return         301 https://$server_name/;
 }

server {
listen 443 ssl;
server_name subdomain.domain.com;

rewrite     ^/$ /ui permanent;

location / {

    proxy_pass stuff
    }
}
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  2. Try something like this - I can't guarantee it will work, but it's worth a shot. Basically it's saying "send requests for the UI folder to this other server". You may need the rewrite in the other answer as well or instead.

    location /ui {
  proxy_pass (etc);
}
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