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Steven Garcia
Steven Garcia

Reputation: 2834

Redirecting Nginx Parameters

I inherited a legacy site and for SEO reasons wish to redirect old parameter links to the new api. Like so:

www.example.com/section/?page=3 => www.example.com/page/3

Here is my attempt at a regex redirect:

location ~ ^/section\/\?page=(.*)/$ {
    return 301 https://www.example.com/page/$1;
}

I've used this pattern countless times without issue but after hours of poking I still can't get the redirect working. Clearly Nginx treats parameters differently.

Any tips?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 48

Answers (2)

miknik
miknik

Reputation: 5951

You don't need regex here, it would add unnecessary processing overhead anyway.

Nginx captures url parameters already. you can use the $args variable for all the parameters, or individual ones are prefixed $arg_, so assuming all your urls match this format you can just use a location block like this:

location  /section/ {
    return 301 https://www.example.com/page/$arg_page;
}

Upvotes: 1

gregmac
gregmac

Reputation: 25321

You have a trailing slash in your regex, so it would only match www.example.com/section/?page=3/.

Try ^/section\/\?page=(.*)$

Upvotes: 0

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