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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 14/02/2015 21:57, JACK LINKERS
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Hello,</span>
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<div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">I need to redirect
some URLs after redesigning my website.</div>
<div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">I use a 301 redirect
for HTTP to HTTPS protocole :</div>
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<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>if ($scheme =
"http") {</div>
<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>return 301
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://$server_name$request_uri">https://$server_name$request_uri</a>;</div>
<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>}</div>
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<div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">But how do I redirect
URLs that have been changed ?</div>
<div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">ie. <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://mywebsite.com/oldname.html" target="_blank">https://mywebsite.com/oldname.html</a> to <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://mywebsite.com/newname.html" target="_blank">https://mywebsite.com/newname.html</a></div>
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<div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">I did try </div>
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<div> if ( $request_filename ~ oldname.html/ ) {</div>
<div> rewrite ^ <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://mywebsite.com/newname.html/" target="_blank">https://mywebsite.com/newname.html/</a>?
permanent;</div>
<div> }</div>
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<div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">But this doesn't work.</div>
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<div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">My website is hosted
on a server with Direct Admin runing on a CentOS with Nginx as
webserver. Don't know if it helps.</div>
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<div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Thanks in advance for
help</div>
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Hi Jack,<br>
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I'm no nginx expert, but I think you should use location instead of
if, its faster and less prone to create other errors. <br>
I think you can also use 301 redirects. <br>
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I would proceed to set up lots of location clauses thus:<br>
<br>
location = /oldurl$ {<br>
return 301 <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://$server_name/newurl">https://$server_name/newurl</a>;<br>
} <br>
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Hope this works for you<br>
<br>
Ian<br>
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Ian Hobson
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Tel: 0203 287 1392
Preparing eBooks for Kindle and ePub formats to give the best reader experience.</pre>
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