Redirect question

[Igor Sysoev]

> On 23 Mar 2018, at 16:14, Friscia, Michael <michael.friscia at yale.edu> wrote:
> 
> I’m wondering how to achieve this in the config
>  
> I have a url like this
> http://example.com/people/mike
>  
> and I want to redirect to
> https://www.othersite.com/users/mike
>  
> the problem at hand is switching “/people/” to “/users/” but keep everything else so if I was to have
> http://example.com/people/mike/education?page=1
> I would still get redirected to
> https://www.othersite.com/users/mike/education?page=1
>  
> I currently have redirects where I just append $request_uri to the new domain name but in this case I need to alter the $request_uri before I use it. So the question is how should I approach making this sort of change?

Something like this:

     location ~ ^/people/(?<REST>.+) {
         return  301  http://example.com/users/$REST$is_args$args;
     }

However, if you do not want to care about location order in future, this is better:

     location /people/ {
         location ~ ^/people/(?<REST>.+) {
             return  301  http://example.com/users/$REST$is_args$args;
         }
     }


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