HTTP directory redirect not using $host

[Igor Sysoev]

On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Bob Ippolito wrote:

> It seems that the redirection from http://example.com/somedir to
> http://example.com/somedir/ does a 302 using the local hostname rather
> than the Host header.
>
> I was able to work around the issue using rewrite:
> if (-d $request_filename) { rewrite ^(.*[^/])$ http://$host$1/; }
>
> It would be nice if this was fixed in a future release. I looked
> around in the source for a bit, but I wasn't able to find exactly what
> needs to be changed.

Had you set "server_name" ?

     server {
         server_name   example.com www.example.com;
         ...
     }

     server {
         server_name   example1.com www.example1.com;
         ...
     }

nginx uses first name of the "server_name" directive in redirect.
If server_name is not set, then it uses local hostname.

If you have an wildcard server you can force nginx to use always
the "Host" header in redirects using "*":

     server {
         server_name   example.com  *;
         ...
     }

The "*" could not be first name. You need to set something,
it may be even dummy name "_":

         server_name   _  *;



Igor Sysoev
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