How to do location /test/place?id=2

[P.V.Anthony]

On 19/10/19 4:22 pm, Aleksandar Lazic wrote:

> Have you tried Lewis suggestion with $arg_id, it looks exactly what you
> searching for?
> 
> Untested:
> location = /test/place {
>        if ($arg_id = "2") {
>          return 301 https://new.example.com/test/place?$args;
>       }
> }

I did try but it does not work when the uri has id=1 where id=1 should 
remain and go to old.example.com.

The solution that works for me is as follows.

if ( $request_uri = "/test/place?id=2" ) {
       rewrite ^ http://new.example.com${uri}?${args}? last;
}

Works with "return" also.

P.V.Anthony