Preferred way to do redirects (rewrite or return)

[Valentin V. Bartenev]

On Tuesday 24 September 2013 00:38:53 justin wrote:
> What is the preferred way to do redirects? I know of two solutions:
> 
> rewrite "^/help/?$" https://support.mydomain.com permanent;
> 
> or
> 
> location ^/help/?$ {
>   return 301 https://support.mydomain.com;
> }
> 
> I think I like using a location block and a return statement. Which is
> faster though and the standard?
> 

Faster:

  location =/help { return 301 https://support.mydomain.com; }
  location =/help/ { return 301 https://support.mydomain.com; }


 wbr, Valentin V. Bartenev