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Reputation: 12824

How to redirect to a different domain using Nginx?

How can I redirect mydomain.example and any subdomain *.mydomain.example to www.adifferentdomain.example using Nginx?

Upvotes: 226

Views: 313848

Answers (9)

Django Noob
Django Noob

Reputation: 13

Just started using wordops and had a short domain name I use for email addresses that I needed to redirect to the primary long domain name for the website. My MX DNS entries for both domains pointed to an exchange server but the web service was on DigitalOcean. What I ended up doing was creating a basic wordops html site then editing the nginx conf to redirect specifically to the http address of the long domain name which THEN redirects to https. This solved my "warning" issue in firefox etc. This is what finally worked for me:

server {
    listen 80;
    listen 443;
    server_name  .shortname.com;
    rewrite ^ http://stupidlongnamedomainname.com$request_uri? permanent;
}

Upvotes: 0

Robin van Baalen
Robin van Baalen

Reputation: 3651

Why use the rewrite module if you can do return? Technically speaking, return is part of the rewrite module as you can read here but this snippet is easier to read imho.

server {
    server_name  .domain.com;

    return 302 $scheme://forwarded-domain.com;
}

You can also give it a 301 redirect.

Upvotes: 21

Taimoor Changaiz
Taimoor Changaiz

Reputation: 10684

Temporary redirect

rewrite ^ http://www.RedirectToThisDomain.example$request_uri? redirect;

Permanent redirect

rewrite ^ http://www.RedirectToThisDomain.example$request_uri? permanent;

In Nginx configuration file for specific site:

server {
    server_name www.example.com;
    rewrite ^ http://www.RedictToThisDomain.example$request_uri? redirect;

}

Upvotes: 4

Parishilan Rayamajhi
Parishilan Rayamajhi

Reputation: 3057

You can simply write a if condition inside server {} block:

server {

    if ($host = mydomain.example) {
        return 301 http://www.adifferentdomain.example;
    }
}

Upvotes: 7

Tech
Tech

Reputation: 945

I'm using this code for my sites

server {
        listen 80;
        listen 443;
        server_name  .domain.example;

        return 301 $scheme://newdomain.example$request_uri;
}

Upvotes: 26

ZanMax
ZanMax

Reputation: 375

If you would like to redirect requests for domain1.example to domain2.example, you could create a server block that looks like this:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name domain1.example;
    return 301 $scheme://domain2.example$request_uri;
}

Upvotes: 11

udo
udo

Reputation: 1516

That should work via HTTPRewriteModule.

Example rewrite from www.example.com to example.com:

server {
    server_name www.example.com;
    rewrite ^ http://example.com$request_uri? permanent;
}

Upvotes: 13

Serhii Topolnytskyi
Serhii Topolnytskyi

Reputation: 820

server {
    server_name .mydomain.example;
    return 301 http://www.adifferentdomain.example$request_uri;
}

http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpRewriteModule#return

and

http://wiki.nginx.org/Pitfalls#Taxing_Rewrites

Upvotes: 35

kolbyjack
kolbyjack

Reputation: 18310

server_name supports suffix matches using .mydomain.example syntax:

server {
  server_name .mydomain.example;
  rewrite ^ http://www.adifferentdomain.example$request_uri? permanent;
}

or on any version 0.9.1 or higher:

server {
  server_name .mydomain.example;
  return 301 http://www.adifferentdomain.example$request_uri;
}

Upvotes: 394

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