Nginx – How to 301 redirect with NginX without adding port number

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I need to 301 redirect the contents of an entire directory to another directory with nginx. While my configuration works, it unfortunatelly also exposes the port number. This is I guess now a side effect since the inbound traffic for the specific domain is handled via HAProxy ACL rules to the 8000 port, while the url itself is port 80.

This is my nginx conf:

server {
    listen       8000;
    port_in_redirect off;
    location ~* ^/data/dir1/(.*)$ {
    return 301 /data/dir2/$1;
}
...

It redirects from URL:

domain.com/data/dir1/…

to:

domain.com:8000/data/dir2/…

How could I get rid of the 8000 inside the URL redirect?

The tmp workaround I have is to put :80 into the redirect but I fear that this will impact the URL google is listing as it includes a port number.

Best Answer

Can you try the following:

server {
    listen       8000;
    location ~* ^/data/dir1/(.*)$ {
    return 301 http://example.com/data/dir2/$1;
}

Correct way in new versions of nginx

Turn out my first answer to this question was correct at certain time, but it turned into another pitfall - to stay up to date please check Taxing rewrite pitfalls

I have been corrected by many SE users, so the credit goes to them, but more importantly, here is the correct code:

server {
       listen         80;
       server_name    my.domain.com;
       return         301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
}

server {
       listen         443 ssl;
       server_name    my.domain.com;
       # add Strict-Transport-Security to prevent man in the middle attacks
       add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000" always; 

       [....]
}

How to Force or Redirect to SSL in Nginx

According to nginx pitfalls, it's slightly better to omit the unnecessary capture, using $request_uri instead. In that case, append a question mark to prevent nginx from doubling any query args.

server {
    listen      80;
    server_name signup.mysite.com;
    rewrite     ^   https://$server_name$request_uri? permanent;
}

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