location redirect always with trailing slash... sometimes

[Francis Daly]

On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 09:58:19AM +0100, Hans Schou wrote:

Hi there,

> I found a solution (after reading the manual)
> http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_rewrite_module.html

Great that you found a solution that works for you.

> > Example of required redirect:
> > http://ex.org/foo -> https://ex2.org/foo/    # Nx solves the bug here
> > http://ex.org/foo/ -> https://ex2.org/foo/
> > http://ex.org/foo/?id=7 -> https://ex2.org/?id=7
> >
> 
> "rewrite" is the way to go.
> To change /foo or /foo/ to /foo/ and don't change the rest, this will do it:
> location ~ /(foo|bar) {
>     rewrite ^(/[^/]+)/? https://ex2.org$1/ permanent;
> }

Just as an aside: that location will also redirect /foox to /foox/,
/foo/x to /foo/, and /x/foo to /x/.

It will keep any ?k=v part in the original request, in the redirected one.

If you want to limit it to just "/foo", "/foo/", "/bar", and "/bar/",
(with optional ?k=v) then you will want to anchor some regexes using ^
and $.

For example:

  location ~ ^/(foo|bar)/?$ {
    rewrite ^(/[^/]+)/? https://ex2.org$1/ permanent;
  }

> If any path should be handled this way:
> location / {
>     rewrite ^(/[^/]+)/? https://ex2.org$1/ permanent;
> }

That will do the same -- any request of the form /word or /word/x (where
"word" does not include "/") will be redirected to /word/

  rewrite ^(/[^/]+)/?$ https://ex2.org$1/ permanent;

would only redirect requests of the form /word or /word/


Note in particular:

a request for /foo/?id=7 will be redirected to /foo/?id=7, and not to /?id=7.

So that does not match your third requirement as-stated.

(I suspect that you want it to go to /foo/?id=7, and your requirement
is incorrect; so what you have does do what you want.)

Cheers,

	f
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Francis Daly        francis at daoine.org