redirecting url from old to new

[Edho P Arief]

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 7:23 PM, tuffclassified <nginx-forum at nginx.us> wrote:
> Any body will help me to redirect my old  wordpress post
> http://tuffclassified.com/xyz/ to new custom post
> http://tuffclassified.com/ads/xyz/  . It was easy in apache as i have to
> add just
>
> # END WordPress
> RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ http://tuffclassified.com/ads/$1 [R=301,L]
>

location /xyz/ {
  rewrite ^ /ads/$uri permanent;
  ...
}