Redirecting from subdomain to folder on Dotcloud - nginx

Is it possible to redirect from a subdomain to a folder using the application nginx.conf on Dotcloud?
I want to redirect http://blog.domain.com to http://www.domain.com/blog
I may be wrong but as I understand the content of the application level nginx.conf is inserted into a server block of the main nginx.conf.
I've tried the following directive in the nginx.conf but it doesn't work:
rewrite http://blog.domain.com http://www.domain.com/blog/ permanent;
Has anyone else managed to do this?


Ok, so I figured this out. Whilst Ifs are considered evil in nginx this was the best I could do:
if ($http_host = "blog.domain.com") {
rewrite ^/(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/blog/$1?$args;
}

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I tried some examples that I found like rewrite ^/page/(.*)$ /$1; still wasn't able to get the redirection. Maybe I misplaced it, not quite sure where I should put the sting. Tried location and server blocks.
The nginx documentation examples for redirecting were a bit too hard to understand for me, so a little explanation would be great.

If you need a 301 HTTP redirection, try this rewrite rule (before the first location block):
rewrite ^(.*/)page\d+$ $1 permanent;

You can try something like this (not tested)
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I managed to figure out how to bring back the site from the abyss of 404, by placing this code in nginx.conf file
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I have an old URL structure like this archives.php?l=e and I moved it to a new structure archives/e
I'm trying to 301 redirect all the old urls, but I have run into troubles. This is what I'm currently doing but it's not working.
location ^~ /list.php {
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rewrite ^/archives.php$ /archives/$arg_l? permanent;
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I'm trying to create a rewrite with nginx that will change the displayed URL without actually redirecting to it. EG: http://example.com/item/rest-of-path would become http://example.com/folder/rest-of-path. I've been working with different variations of this code with in my nginx.conf:
location ~ /example {
rewrite ^/example/(.*) /folder/$1 last;
}
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nginx url rewriting between 2 domain names

Got an issue with URL rewrite under nginx. Actually I have a main domain name dns1.com which is pointing a webserver with a WordPress installation (permalink = /%category%/%postname%/). I've created this page dns1.com/forum/forumname1.
I also have a domain name forumname1.com and I want this one to be pointed to the content of dns1.com/forum/forumname1. The issue is that I don't know how to display the result of dns1.com/forum/forumname1 with only forumname1.com in the bar address :( Actually it works when I go to forumname1.com/forum/forumname1 but this URL is pretty redundant :/ I should make this parameter "/forum/forumname1" hidden but how?
Here is my nginx serverblocks :
server{
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root /var/www/dns1.com;
location = /forum/forumname1 {
rewrite ^/(.*)$ http://forumname1.com permanent;
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}
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server_name forumname1.com;
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