I would like to rewrite legacy links using a query parameter type of URL to a new style of URL.
Ex.
example.com/page?id=1 -> example.com/page/1
example.com/otherpage?id=1 -> example.com/otherpage/1
Currently I have the following configuration using the evil if.
if ($args ~* "id=(.*)") {
set $w1 $1;
rewrite .* $scheme://$host/page/$w1? permanent;
}
Note: I am using CloudFront, and relying on the host header above.
If the above is in a server block, with no other location block - would this qualify as a non-evil use of if in NGINX config? Also, the above only supported /page/. Any better ideas for making that portion work for otherpage and other pages?
I have seen a few other ideas discussing using a map, but I'm not quite sure how to bring it all together? I was thinking something along the lines of:
map $args_id ?? {
default ?
??
}
...
server {
...
???
}
UPDATE:
Based on the Answer from #Ivan, this was my final solution:
server {
listen 80;
root /usr/share/nginx/html;
index index.html index.htm;
# Handle legacy requests
if ($args ~* "id=(.*)") {
set $w1 $1;
rewrite ^ $scheme://$host$uri/$w1? permanent;
}
}
Your if construction isn't evil. You can use something like
rewrite ^ $scheme://$host$uri/$w1? permanent;
for any page. More complex example if you want to process both example.com/page?id=1 and example.com/page/?id=1:
map $uri $maybe_slash {
~/$ "";
default "/";
}
...
server {
...
rewrite ^ $scheme://$host$uri$maybe_slash$w1? permanent;
...
}
Related
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
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/$1;
}
#Ivan Shatsky's answer is great for files but also if we want to redirect a general url is better if you use the rewrite directive.
Depending where you define the rewrite directive you have two ways to implement it:
A. In the server context
server {
...
rewrite ^/[a-z]+/_data/(.+)$ /_data/$1 last;
...
}
B. In the location context
location ~ /[a-z]+/_data/(.+) {
rewrite ^/[a-z]+/_data/(.+)$ /_data/$1 break;
proxy_pass http://backend;
}
Teo, why did you change the flag to break?* Because, if this directive is put inside of a location context, the last flag might make nginx to run 10 cycles and return the 500 error.
Note:
Remember not add / at the end of the proxy_pass directive. This example wont work:
...
proxy_pass http://backend/;
...
I have a problem i want to detect the domain and the device and forward the response to the desktop, www server section of nginx. With a rewrite this is done but the problem is the url, is cleared and substitute with my url, the configuration is the following :
server {
listen 80 default_server;
#this detects any domain
server_name ~^(www\.)?(?<domain>.+)$;
root /home/someone/main;
index index.html index.htm;
set $mobile_rewrite do_not_perform;
# this regex string is actually much longer to match more mobile devices
if ($http_user_agent ~* '(iPhone|iPod|iPad|Android|BlackBerry|webOS|Windows Phone)') {
set $mobile_rewrite perform;
}
location / {
if ($mobile_rewrite = perform) {
rewrite ^ http://m.someone.domain.com$request_uri? redirect;
break;
}
}
}
I tried a different approach with an alias to the path in so of the m.someone.domain.com code section but this doesn't work inside the if witch is inside the location.
You can try modifying your if block in following way.
location / {
if ($mobile_rewrite = perform) {
return 301 http://m.someone.domain.com$request_uri;
}
}
As you are using rewrite rule as redirect so above may work. Also rewrites are heavier.
location / {
if ($mobile_rewrite = perform) {
rewrite ^http://m.someone.domain.com$request_uri? / permanent;
}
}
Try this it might work for u
I have a url http://foo.com/banana and I have another url http://foo.com/banana?a=1&b=2
I like that all /banana routes are handled by my local nginx, but I'd like any banana routes with GET params to be proxied to http://bar.com
so:
http://foo.com/banana -> http://foo.com/banana
http://foo.com/banana?a=1 -> (proxy) -> http://bar.com/banana?a=1
I should note this is not for production. I'm trying to redirect api calls to redirect to another server during development.
I've tried to do an 'if args' block but I can't do a proxy_pass in an if block.
I thought about doing a rewrite of:
http://foo.com/banana?a=1 -> http://foo.com/proxy?a=1
location /proxy {
proxy_pass http://bar.com;
}
But I don't have the right logic for above because bar.com is expecting the /banana route.
Any ideas?
Since this is not for production, you could stick with your original "if" solution. You only need to escape from the "if" block to be able to proxy_pass, which can be easily done with the traditional trick:
location /banana {
error_page 418 = #good_old_fallback;
if ($args) {
return 418;
}
}
location #good_old_fallback {
proxy_pass http://bar.com;
}
Your idea of using another location will also work, so if you prefer it better, you can go with something like this:
location /banana {
if ($args) {
rewrite ^/banana(.*)$ /proxy$1 last;
}
}
location /proxy {
internal;
rewrite ^/proxy(.*)$ /banana$1 break;
proxy_pass http://bar.com;
}
I'm using Nginx 1.6.2. I read that if () is evil and it's not good using it so I need a bit help, because I can't do what I want without using if(). I will post the rules I have with if and would ask if somebody could help me and tell me how to not use if () and use something else and get the same result.
# REDIRECT NON-WWW TO WWW.
if ($http_host != "www.site.eu") {
rewrite ^ http://www.site.eu$request_uri permanent;
}
# REMOVE INDEX FILES FROM URL FOR SEO PURPOSE.
if ($request_uri ~ "/index.php") {
rewrite ^ /$1 permanent;
}
# REMOVE ANY MULTIPLE SLASHES IN THE URL.
if ($request_uri ~* "\/\/") {
rewrite ^/(.*) $scheme://$host/$1 permanent;
}
First rule should be replaced with separate server blocks
server {
listen 80 default_server;
return 301 http://www.example.com$request_uri;
}
server {
listen 80;
server_name www.example.com;
# normal config
}
Other ifs usually are not necessary. Just don't generate links with index.php and you will not need to strip it.
In the official wiki introduction it says that there are some cases which are ok. Have a look at this quote:
The only 100% safe things which may be done inside if in location
context are:
return ...; rewrite ... last;
At the end of the introduction there is an example which also features a rewrite command. So your code looks ok, too.
EDIT: You should also have a look at how the if works.
You can replace this block
# REMOVE INDEX FILES FROM URL FOR SEO PURPOSE.
if ($request_uri ~ "/index.php") {
rewrite ^ /$1 permanent;
}
with this
location ~ ^/index.php/(.*[^/])$ { return 301 $scheme://$host/$1/$is_args$args; }
location ~ ^/index.php/(.*)/$ { return 301 $scheme://$host/$1/$is_args$args; }
I also don't think you need to worry about the last rule for double // because nginx by default automatically takes care of that before it even gets to the point of matching location blocks
I currently have the following (hacky) re-write rule in my nginx.conf to allow dynamic sub-domains to be re-directed to one Django instance.
set $subdomain "";
set $subdomain_root "";
set $doit "";
if ($host ~* "^(.+)\.domain\.com$") {
set $subdomain $1;
set $subdomain_root "/profile/$subdomain";
set $doit TR;
}
if (!-f $request_filename) {
set $doit "${doit}UE";
}
if ($doit = TRUE) {
rewrite ^(.*)$ $subdomain_root$1;
break;
}
I'm sure there is a more efficient way to do this but I need to change this rule so that any requests to *.domain.com/media/* or *.domain.com/downloads/* go to domain.com/media/* and domain.com/downloads/*.
You can use regular expression server names (see http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/server_names.html#regex_names) and assign a matching group to a variable $subdomain directly:
server {
listen 80;
listen 443;
server_name ~^(?<subdomain>.+)\.domain\.com$
location / {
rewrite ^ /profile/$subdomain$request_uri;
}
}
Actually I think it is much easier to change the nginx re-write rules than to write middleware for django to do this. After reading up on how nginx processes it's location matching (most exact -> least exact) I created locations for /media and /download as well as a catch all location for / I then moved the rewrite rule to under the / location and simplified it - as I'm no longer worried about checking for files because this entire location is passed to django - the rule becomes :
set $subdomain "";
set $subdomain_root "";
if ($host ~* "^(.+)\.domain\.com$") {
set $subdomain $1;
set $subdomain_root "/profile/$subdomain";
rewrite ^(.*)$ $subdomain_root$1;
break;
}
and would probably be even simpler if my nginx\regex scripting was better :)
Perhaps a better idea would be to configure django to handle subdomains instead of adding a rewrite in your webserver. Here's how I did it: http://sharjeel.2scomplement.com/2008/07/24/django-subdomains/