Nginx rewrite of url with query string

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I have been googling for a good while and can't figure this one out. It seems simple, and I am sure it is, but I am not a server expert.

My url is: http://www.example.com/blog/?tag=Word1+Word2

Some of the tags are a single word (ex: bicycle), some are longer (ex: Two wheel bicycle).

I need this url to be output as: example.com/blog/tag/word1-word2/

How can I get a rewrite to achieve this?

Best Answer

You should send - in your query instead of + to get same format and make an easier request :

location ~ /blog/ {
    if ($args ~* "tag=(.*)") {
        set $w1 $1;
        rewrite .* /blog/tag/$w1/? permanent;
    }
}

Based on the link i posted

? at the end will remove the query string parameters (from rewrite doc )

If you specify a ? at the end of a rewrite then Nginx will drop the original $args (arguments)

another to achieve it is to set args to nothing:

set $args '';

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; 

       [....]
}

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In addition to the redirect, you will need to mark each site as an application in IIS. WinHost should have a control panel or way for you to mark each of the sites as their own application. That will make folders like /sub1/ as a root application.

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