Creating an nginx redirect while removing two subdirectories from the path

Question

I have the following nginx redirect which needs to redirect all requests to a different domain name. It works fine.

However the request url will be like: https://example.com/abc/123/TOKEN

How can I reformat this in the redirect to be like: https://example.com/TOKEN

events {}
http {
server {
    listen       80  default_server;
    server_name  _;
    return 301 https://example.com/$request_uri;
}
}

Richard Smith · Accepted Answer · 2024-10-03 12:20:54Z

1

The Nginx rewrite...permanent; statement can change the URL before generating a 301 redirect.

For example:

server {
    listen 80 default_server;
    rewrite ^/[^/]+/[^/]+(/.*)$ https://example.com$1 permanent;
}

Note: server_name _; is no longer necessary.

answered Oct 3, 2024 at 12:20

Richard Smith

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