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Ram Sharma
Ram Sharma

Reputation: 8819

nginx server: how to remove first directory from URL

Can anybody please help me to remove first directory name from URL?

My Image location is _data/hotel/3/15377/hotel_image.jpg

But Image path gets changed due to relative URL in code and it become to something like this.

example.com/france/_data/hotel/3/15377/hotel_image.jpg example.com/usa/_data/hotel/3/15377/hotel_image.jpg example.com/india/_data/hotel/3/15377/hotel_image.jpg

is their any possibilities to remove dynamic country name from above URL

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4490

Answers (2)

Teocci
Teocci

Reputation: 8895

@Ivan Shatsky's answer is great for files but also if we want to redirect a general url is better if you use the rewrite directive.

Depending where you define the rewrite directive you have two ways to implement it:

A. In the server context

server {
    ...
    rewrite ^/[a-z]+/_data/(.+)$ /_data/$1 last;
    ...
}

B. In the location context

location ~ /[a-z]+/_data/(.+) {
    rewrite ^/[a-z]+/_data/(.+)$ /_data/$1 break;
    proxy_pass http://backend;
}

Teo, why did you change the flag to break?* Because, if this directive is put inside of a location context, the last flag might make nginx to run 10 cycles and return the 500 error.

Note:

Remember not add / at the end of the proxy_pass directive. This example wont work:

...
proxy_pass http://backend/;
...

Upvotes: 2

Ivan Shatsky
Ivan Shatsky

Reputation: 15537

If you want to rewrite only this particular URL, you can use this location block in your config:

location ~ /[a-z]+/_data/hotel/3/15377/hotel_image.jpg {
    try_files /_data/hotel/3/15377/hotel_image.jpg;
}

If you want to rewrite all URLs which lead to /<country>/_data/..., you can use:

location ~ /[a-z]+/_data/(.+) {
    try_files /_data/$1;
}

or for stricter URL checking:

location ~ /(?:france|usa|india)/_data/(.+) {
    try_files /_data/$1;
}

Upvotes: 4

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