Questions tagged [rewrite]
URL Rewriting maps an incoming URL to a modified URL, so that the request is processes as if the original request was made to the modified URL. This is often used to provide more search engine friendly URLs.
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Nginx Redirect via Proxy, Rewrite and Preserve URL
In Nginx we have been trying to redirect a URL as follows:
http://example.com/some/path -> http://192.168.1.24
where the user still sees the original URL in their browser. Once the user is ...
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What is the difference between Nginx variables $host, $http_host, and $server_name?
What is the difference between the three Nginx variables $host, $http_host, and $server_name?
I have a rewrite rule where I'm not sure which one I should be using:
location = /vb/showthread.php {
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Nginx - Meaning of the ~ (tilde) in the location block of the nginx.conf?
What is the meaning of the tilde after the location block in the nginx configuration?
for example
location ~ ^/download/(.*)$ {
alias /home/website/files/$1;
}
What is the difference between ...
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Nginx redirect one path to another
I'm sure this has been asked before, but I can't find a solution that works.
A website has switched CMS services, but has the same domain, how do I set up an nginx rewrite for a single page?
E.g.
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nginx url rewriting: difference between break and last
I don't understand the difference between break and last (flags of rewrite). The documentation is rather abstruse. I've tried to switch between the two in some of my configs, but I couldn't spot any ...
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Remove "www" and redirect to "https" with nginx
I want to create a rule in nginx that does two things:
Removes the "www." from the request URI
Redirects to "https" if the request URI is "http"
There are plenty of examples of how to do each of ...
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how to restrict access to directory and subdirs
I need to restrict access to any files or subdirs in direstory "testdir". My conf:
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location ~* ^.+\.(jpg|txt)$ {
root /var/www/site;
}
location /testdir {
deny all;
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How to quick and easy remove part of an URL in Nginx with HttpRewriteModule?
I know about the HttpRewriteModule, but I don't really know how to handle regex and I would need to redirect all URLs within a certain directory to another, specifically:
From: example.com/component/...
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How to rewrite the domain part of Set-Cookie in a nginx reverse proxy?
I have a simple nginx reverse proxy:
server {
server_name external.domain.com;
location / {
proxy_pass http://backend.int/;
}
}
The problem is that Set-Cookie response headers contain ;...
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Disabling URL decoding in nginx proxy
When I browse to this URL: http://localhost:8080/foo/%5B-%5D server (nc -l 8080) receives it as-is:
GET /foo/%5B-%5D HTTP/1.1
However when I proxy this application via nginx (1.1.19):
location /foo ...
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HAProxy reqrep remove URI on backend request
real quick question regarding HAProxy reqrep. I am trying to rewrite/replace the request that gets sent to the backend.
I have the following example domain and URIs, both sharing the same domain ...
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How can I export URL rewrite rules?
Is it possible to export URL rewrite rules for IIS7?
I am setting up a duplicate of a website for internal use (testing) and want to duplicate all of the URL Rewrite rules without having to manually ...
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nginx + PHP-FPM = "permission denied" error 13 in nginx log; configuration mistake?
I've got nginx 0.7x + PHP-FPM running under PHP 5.2.10 on one RHEL5 server, but trying to duplicate that setup under the bundled-in PHP-FPM in PHP 5.3.3 on a second server, I'm having some trouble ...
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How to inject HTML code into every delivered HTML page?
I've got an Apache web server that delivers static HTML pages. For some reason I can't change the files themselves, but I still want to inject some HTML into every page that is being served.
Is this ...
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Redirect only home page
I need to redirect only http://shop.test.com to http://www.test.com/fedex-orders/
Just homepage. Nothing else. ie http://shop.test.com/?page=blog should NOT redirect.
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Nginx https rewrite turns POST to GET
My proxy server runs on ip A and this is how people access my web service. The nginx configuration will redirect to a virtual machine on ip B.
For the proxy server on IP A, I have this in my sites-...
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nginx rewrite for an url with parameters
I have an URL of this type:
http://www.example.com/?param1=val1¶m2=¶m3=val3¶m4=val4¶m5=val5
And I want to redirect it to this one:
http://www.example.com/newparam/...
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nginx case insensitive rewrite
I am trying to make my nginx redirects as clean as possible. I understand ~* is for case insensitive but I can only get it to work in example 2.
Example 1
rewrite ^/foobar http://www.youtube.com/...
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maintaining redirects in nginx from an external source
I am in the situation to give our marketing department the opportunity to maintain their redirects by their own. Until now, they passed the information to the IT department and we maintained it for ...
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How to redirect requests to a different domain/url with nginx
I'm trying to redirect all users coming to a URL "http://example.com/something" to a URL like "http://answares.com/examples_com/something".
I'm trying with code like this:
server {
listen 1.2.3.4:...
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How can I enforce that my urls always start with www?
I want to ensure that users come to www.mydomain.com even if they arrive through the alias mydomain.com. This is so that I have control over cookies on subdomains, and so that Google sees one single ...
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Is it possible to replace content on every page passed through a proxy similar to how mod_rewrite is used for URLs?
Is it possible to replace content on every page passed through a proxy similar to how mod_rewrite is used for URLs? The documentation on substitute is not clear.
I have some pages I am reverse ...
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Prevent URL Rewrite rules from being inherited by subdirectories in IIS7
I have a URL Rewrite setup for clean URLs in a CMS and my web.config looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<...
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"Hide" .html file extensions using nginx rewrites
I'm serving up a static site via nginx, and my goal is to replace URL's that look like:
http://foo.com/bar.html
with
http://foo.com/bar
The key being no trailing slash. I am currently doing ...
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How to use IIS URL Rewrite with gzip compression
I've been trying to create outbound rules in IIS 7.5 on Windows 2008 R2 on a site that has static HTML pages and compression enabled.
If I have any form of compression enabled (static or dynamic) I ...
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Nginx rewrite URL only if file exists
I need to write a rewrite rule for Nginx so that if a user tries to go to an old image url:
/images/path/to/image.png
and the file doesnt exist, try to redirect to:
/website_images/path/to/image....
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Nginx Rewrite Convert Querystring to Path
I whould like this simple rewrite rule:
/somefolder/mypage.aspx?myid=4343&tab=overview
to be redirected to:
/folder/4343/overview/
I looked for some solutions and none actually worked..
I ...
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Nginx multiple roots
I'd like to divert off requests to a particular sub-directory, to another root location. How? My existing block is:
server {
listen 80;
server_name www.domain.com;
location / {
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My nginx rewrite is downloading the php file
I have the following rewrite rule I'm trying:
location / {
index index.php index.html;
rewrite ^/test$ /test.php break;
}
And I ...
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IIS URL Rewrite HTTP to HTTPS with Port
My website has two bindings: 1000 and 1443 (port 80/443 are in use by another website on the same IIS instance). Port 1000 is HTTP, port 1443 is HTTPS. What I want to do is redirect any incoming ...
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Different nginx rules based on referrer
I'm using WordPress with WP Super Cache. I want visitors who come from Google (That inlcudes all country specific referrers like google.co.in, google.co.uk and etc.) to see uncached contents.
There ...
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What is the difference between HTTP_HOST and HTTPS_HOST in apache .htaccess files?
I'm editing an .htaccess file..
In RewriteCondition for RewriteRules, HTTPS_HOST seems to only match urls that are accessed via https:// protocol (ssl). I saw in docs somewhere that it's a T/F ...
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Configure IIS 7 Reverse Proxy to connect to TeamCity Tomcat
We have an IIS 7 webserver configured and would like to create a reverse proxy for a TeamCity installation using Tomcat on the same machine.
The IIS server site is https://somesite and I would like ...
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Temporarily redirect *all* HTTP/HTTPS requests in IIS to a "server maintenance" page
We've got an IIS server that hosts hundreds of separate web apps, and the physical database server that hosts these apps is going to be taken offline for maintenance for a brief period (we expect it ...
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Add samesite to cookies using Nginx as reverse proxy
With Nginx as reverse proxy, how do you add samesite=strict or samesite=lax to cookies?
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How to extract Only the file name from the request uri
I am trying to rewrite the request uri depending on the extension of the file, then extract only the file name from the uri and store it in another folder. The problem here is no predefined variable ...
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IIS Rewrite, rewrite maps and query strings
Please help me understand rewrite maps, I have this setup:
<rewriteMap name="MyMap">
<add key="/pages" value="/website/pages/index.aspx" />
<add key="/pages/page-1" value="/...
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Add trailing slash when it's missing in nginx
I'm running Magento on Nginx using this config: http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/1_-_installation_and_configuration/configuring_nginx_for_magento.
Now I want to 301 all URLs without trailing slash ...
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nginx: rewrite all except one location
Right now my nginx is rewriting several domains to one main domain which we are using. Here's one rule from my config:
server {
listen X.X.X.X:80;
server_name .exampleblog.org;
rewrite ^(.*) ...
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Apache: Where to examine the redirection logs?
I have complicated RewriteCond and RewriteRule in one machine. And according to these rules, some of the requests will be redirected to another machine.
So is there any Apache log that shows clearly ...
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mod_rewrite does not forward GET parameters
I'm having trouble setting up Apache with mod_rewrite on my development machine. Mod_rewrite is active, and works well for some rules. Some rules do not work as intended, like this one:
RewriteRule ^...
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How do I make RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} match a cookie value exactly? [duplicate]
How do I make my rule match an exact value of a cookie? I've tried:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} ^its=me$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} its=^me$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} its="me" [NC]
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nginx - specify different index file name for subdirectory
I want the directory index file in the root of my site to be index.html but within a subdirectory /foo I want it to be bar.html
i.e.
/index.html
/foo/bar.html
Also I want requests to /foo or /foo/ ...
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nginx $uri is url decoded
I am using nginx as reverse proxy and I have 2 rules like:
location ~ ^/indirect {
rewrite ^/indirect(.*) /foobar$1;
}
location ~ ^/foobar {
set $url http://example.com/something/index.php?var1=...
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nginx redirect to www.domain
I want to redirect the site ALWAYS to www.site.com. However, I am not sure as to how to get the WWW to always show up in front should say someone type in the domain without the www.
EDIT:
server {
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Apache 2.2 redirect all but one directory
I have this in my httpd.conf file:
<VirtualHost IP.AD.DR.ESS:80>
ServerName example.com
Redirect Permanent / https://example.net/
</VirtualHost>
This is successfully redirecting ...
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IIS URL Rewrite Module Query String Parameters
Is it possible to use URL Rewrite to provide more complex query string functionality than the "Append query string" checkbox that it has? Specifically, is it possible to specify the keys for certain ...
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What URL should the browser display with this DNS configuration?
If I have the following records in the DNS:
hostname Record Type address
benmccormack.com A 216.10.244.61
www.benmccormack.com CNAME ...
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Why do I get a double trailing slash depending on where my RewriteRule is located?
I am using the following code to direct all www requests to non-www URLs:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.example\.org$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
This ...
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Haproxy "use_backend" match order
I have a problem with HAProxy, it's a snippet of my haproxy.cfg below,
acl url_a path_beg /a
acl dom_eye hdr_dom(host) -i www.mydomin.com
use_backend eye1 if dom_eye
use_backend eye2 if dom_eye ...
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