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Romain Linsolas
Asked: 2018-04-30 23:56:55 +0800 CST

nginx force rewrite of full address

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On my enterprise intranet, websites can be accessed in two ways. With their alias, like https://foo or with their full address, something like https://foo.example.internal.

I want to configure my nginx server to force user to use the second option. So if they browse https://foo, I want the nginx server to rewrite the address to https://foo.example.internal.

I've tried several options:

http {
  server {
    server_name foo;

    # Test 1
    rewrite ^https://foo/(.*)$ https://foo.example.internal/$1;

    # Test 2
    rewrite ^/foo/(.*)$ https://foo.example.internal/$1;

    # Test 3
    rewrite ^/(.*) https://foo.example.internal/$1;
  }
}

Test1 and Test2 has no effect (i.e. the user may access the website on https://foo or https://foo.example.internal), while Test3 does the rewrite from https://foo to https://foo.example.internal but the latest does not work (nothing is returned by the nginx server, I suspect that there is some loop in that URL rewrite).

So, how can I force nginx to rewrite https://foo to https://foo.example.internal?

Thanks

nginx

1 Answers

  1. Finally found the problem. The working solution is done by setting 2 servers:

    http {

  server {
    server_name foo;
    listen 443 ssl;

    return 301 https://foo.example.internal$request_uri;
  }

  server {
    server_name foo.example.internal;
    listen 443 ssl;

    # rest of configuration
  }


}
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