Apply URL encoding during rewrite rule

[António P. P. Almeida]

On 1 Fev 2012 19h24 WET, lists at wildgooses.com wrote:

> Hi, I need to do a redirect and pass the old URL to the redirected 
> destination. How might I achieve this using nginx?
>
> I tried a rewrite rule simply: rewrite ^/(.*)
> $scheme://$server_addr/?redirect_to=$scheme://$host$request_uri
> redirect;

To escape do a rewrite with a capture. Above you're capturing but not
using the numeric group $1. Try:

rewrite ^/(.*)$ $scheme://$server_addr/?redirect_to=$scheme://$host/$1 redirect.

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