Nginx – How to Redirect Dynamic Page URLs

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I need to change nginx config in a way , that every dynamically generated request is being redirected to main domain.
I'm not sure how to achieve this. Help please!
Not sure if this matters, but I want to add, that traffic goes thru nginx reveser proxy (ssl) to simple web server (nginx)

https://mypage.com/something ->https://mypage.com
https://mypage.com/anything123 ->https://mypage.com
https://mypage.com/randomtext ->https://mypage.com

Best Answer

You could have two location blocks, one for exact match of root directory and the other one for everything else.

location = / {
   try_files /index.html = 404;
}

location / {
   return 301 /;
}

rewrite also can be used instead of return (redirect), but will be slower.

    location / {
       rewrite ^ / permanent;
    }

Another option is just to have a rewrite for everything (inside server block), without any location blocks. In this method, url will remain as the original url you typed on the browser.

server {
    root /xxx/xxx/xx;
    server_name mypage.com;
    rewrite ^.*$ /index.html;
}

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; 

       [....]
}

Nginx – Redirect via Proxy, Rewrite and Preserve URL

First, you shouldn't use root directive inside the location block, it is a bad practice. In this case it doesn't matter though.

Try adding a second location block:

location ~ /some/path/(?<section>.+)/index.html {
    proxy_pass http://192.168.1.24/$section/index.html;
    proxy_set_header Host $host;
}

This captures the part after /some/path/ and before index.html to a $section variable, which is then used to set the proxy_pass destination. You can make the regex more specific if you require.

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