Nginx redirect: folder to external domain

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I'm trying to redirect domain1.com/blog/$ to domain2.com/$.
How do I edit this to strip the /blog from the redirect?

location /blog {
    rewrite ^/(.*) http://domain2.com/$1 break;
}

It now redirects domain1.com/blog/blabla to domain2.com/blog/blabla (so blog is still there)..
Thanks in advance!!

Best Answer

You want the regex part of your rewrite to match against ^/blog/ and capture everything following it:

rewrite ^/blog/(.*) http://domain2.com/$1 break;

Using such an approach, you may also be able to get rid of the location block.

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; 

       [....]
}

Web-server – How to redirect multiple domains to a single domain in lighttpd

Something like:

$HTTP["host"] =~ "firsthost.example.com|secondhost.example.com|otherhost.example.net" {
  url.redirect = ( "^/(.*)" => "http://realdomain.example.org/$1" )
}

should work - as covered in the man page ;)

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Correct way in new versions of nginx

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