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Medo
Medo

Reputation: 325

redirect a page to already redirect directory

I have www.example.com and booking.example.com and I want to redirect booking.example.com/partners to example.com/partners.

I'm currently using

location ~ ^/partners/(.*) {
    return 301 http://www.example.com/partners/$1;
}

but now I want to redirect an old defunct link to a new one, for example, booking.example.com/partners/doesntexist to www.example.com/partners/doesexist

I tried to do this:

location  "^/partners/IDoNotExistAnymore" {
    return 301 http://www.example.com/partners/CorrectLink;
}

But it doesn't work, it always redirects to route.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 22

Answers (1)

Richard Smith
Richard Smith

Reputation: 49812

You need to check the syntax of the location directive. See this document for details.

You seem to be using regular expression locations, but prefix locations and exact match locations will be more efficient in this case:

location ^~ /partners {
    return 301 http://www.example.com$request_uri;
}
location = /partners/IDoNotExistAnymore {
    return 301 http://www.example.com/partners/CorrectLink;
}

Upvotes: 1

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