Creating redirects with Nginx

Overview

This article explains how to redirect a URL for a website running on an Nginx server.

Redirecting your site from HTTP to HTTPS

See this article instead if you need to redirect HTTP requests to HTTPS.

Creating a redirect

To create a redirect in Nginx:

View the Nginx configuration file locations article to create your local /nginx/example.com directory.
Change into this directory:
```
[server]$ cd ~/nginx/example.com
```
Create a file named redirects.conf.
Add the code from one of the examples below.
Reload Nginx for the changes to take effect.

Redirecting a single file

The following code redirects requests from example.com/oldfile.html to example.com/newfile.html:

if ($request_filename ~ oldfile.html){
    rewrite ^ http://example.com/newfile.html? permanent;
}

Redirecting an entire site

The following code redirects all requests to your website site to example.com:

if ($request_filename ~ /*){
    rewrite ^ http://example.com? permanent;
}

See also