redirect from www to sub-page

[Marcin Kasperski]

>      rewrite ^/$ /new_location;
>
> will run regex "^/$" for every request, while
>
>      location = / {
>          rewrite ^   http://www.example.com/new_location;
>
> is just simple comparison with "/". And the regex "^" will be run only
> for "/" requests.

Thanks for the explanation.

PS It could be interesting to measure how noticeable the difference
is. Precompiled hooked regexps aren't that slow.... But I don't have
an idea of realistic benchmark.


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