Redirect /olddir to /newdir

[Igor Sysoev]

On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 01:44:13AM -0500, TECK wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I need your suggestions to create a rewrite rule in nginx that will
> redirect the user from an old dir to the new one:
> http://domain.com/olddir/some/dir/ to
> http://domain.com/newdir/some/dir/
> 
> location /newdir/ {
> 	try_files		$uri $uri/ /newdir/index.php?$uri&$args;
> }
> location /olddir/ {
> 	rewrite ^ http://domain.com/newdir$request_uri? permanent;
> }
> 
> The above rule does not work, it will redirect the user to 
> http://domain.com/newdir/, instead of 
> http://domain.com/newdir/some/dir/.
> If an user types the http://domain.com/olddir/some/dir/ url, nginx
> should automatically redirect him/her to
> http://domain.com/newdir/some/dir/. Right now, it brings the user to
> http://domain.com/newdir/.

location /olddir/ {
    rewrite ^/olddir/(.*)$  http://domain.com/newdir/$1 permanent;
}


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