rewriting $arg into request.

[Reinis Rozitis]

> 
>                  if ($args ~ "^p=(\d+)") {
>                          set $page $1;
>                          set $args "";
>                          rewrite ^.*$ /p/$page last;
>                          break;
>                  }
> 
> I knew there'd be a simpler way and I due to the time of night I was
> struggling.

To add to this (and the map variant by Francis) if the parameter is always 'p' you can just use $arg_p rather than regex on $args or whole $request_uri:

if ($arg_p) { 
	return 301 http://yoursite/p/$arg_p;
}

or 

 map $arg_p $hugo_url {
     1234 /this_nice_title;
 }
...



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