Very OT -- nginx help

[Rick Stevens]

On 11/04/2015 12:51 PM, Mike Wright wrote:
> On 11/04/2015 11:59 AM, Mark Haney wrote:
>> I'm a relative newbie to Nginx, but I've got a problem that I can't
>> quite figure out.  I need to redirect URLS with this:
>>   /resource-library/ (ie domain.com/resource-library
>> <http://domain.com/resource-library>) to this:
>> domain.com/vif-resource-library <http://domain.com/vif-resource-library>
>> and I'm having trouble finding good examples on how to set this up in
>> nginx.
>>
>> Can someone point me in the right direction?  I wouldn't have any
>> problem spending hours working on this, except I don't have the time to
>> do so.  This is a known problem since Monday and I'm just now made aware
>> of it and the powers that be want it fixed now.
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> nginx has a very responsive list.  The devs are always on there

You could do:

	server {
	    listen 80;
	    location /resource-library/ {
		rewrite ^(/.*)$ http://domain.com/vif-resourse-library$1 permanent;
	    }
	}

That should generate a 301 (permanent) redirect. WARNING: Not tested!
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