Nginx custom redirect

zafouhar

I'm hitting the wall with this one, I have an html site on a VPS with Nginx and I want to rewrite shop.html to be just shop (I don't want the rewrite to affect my other html pages).

Anything I try though fails and i'm guessing that i'm doing something wrong.

I've been trying to customize this code snippet here so that I make it only apply on the specific page rather than all html pages but i'm unsure of how to customize it correctly to only apply on shop.html

location ~ { if ($request_uri ~ ^/(.*)\.html$) { return 302 /$1; } try_files $uri $uri/ $uri.html $uri.php?$args; }

Bochi

As far as I know nginx searches for the most specific location first, so couldn't you just add another location directive regarding the shop.html to your config file?

TWo

location / { try_files $uri $uri/ $uri.html $uri.php?$args; } location = /shop.html { return 302 /shop; }

JustAMacUser

Rewrite or redirect? If you want the visitor to see /shop while Nginx serves shop.html then something like this should work:

location /shop {
    alias $document_root/shop.html;
}

If you want the visitor who lands on /shop.html to be redirected to /shop go with what @TWo posted.

TWo

@JustAMacUser Better use "location = /shop" - your snippet may have side effects as it will serve /shop.html's content also for requests to /shopping, /shopwhatever and /shop.html

JustAMacUser

I considered that but wanted to account for use such as /shop/. A regex is probably best in this situation unless the OP has very specific needs. I was mostly just going for another method depending on what the desired end result needed to be. Thanks for pointing this out as it will no doubt be useful to know.

zafouhar

Thanks guys, I tried all your suggestions and a few more - none work on my config (they do work on a completely fresh Nginx install), though that is likely due to some other issue with my Nginx file - I either get redirect loops or Nginx fails to start. I'll look into this further as to what is causing the issue

TWo

Mind sharing your config? Most probably location lines might be sufficient. Nginx is a bitch about priority of location lines.

zafouhar

@TWo said:
Mind sharing your config? Most probably location lines might be sufficient. Nginx is a bitch about priority of location lines.

Yeah indeed, its some location lines that I put - when I remove all my customization's it works like a charm