Nignx Redirect rule to a different url based on a query

Question

We have a wordpress installation and need to redirect lost password link to another different url for this we trying to setup a redirect rule but this is not working. Can anyone please help us.

location / {
proxy_pass      http://localhost;
     }

location wp-login.php?action=lostpassword
rewrite     ^(.*)  http://recover.geo.com $1 permanent;
}

But login url too (wp-login.php?action=login) is redirecting to recover.geo.com

We need to redirect only the url wp-login.php?action=lostpassword to other and all other url including wp-login.php?action=login need to proxypass

Can anyone please help us with the correct configuration.

Thanks

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 22 '14 at 12:15

1

Don't use a location for this at all. It doesn't match on query string arguments.

Instead, just check the argument and request URI directly. For example:

location / {
    if ($arg_action = "lostpassword") {
        rewrite /wp-login.php http://recover.geo.com/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword permanent;
    }

    # everything else...
}

answered Sep 22 '14 at 12:15

Michael Hampton

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I would use `location /wp-login.php` and then the if statement inside, with `rewrite ^ http://recover`. This way nginx won't do the `if` for every request coming to the site. – Tero Kilkanen Sep 22 '14 at 12:40
@TeroKilkanen Yes, but then you have to repeat all the directives to pass non-matching requests onward to PHP, which makes it less clean. – Michael Hampton Sep 22 '14 at 12:43
True, very good point. – Tero Kilkanen Sep 22 '14 at 12:48
Thanks a lot... Its working perfectly.....Again Thanks All.. – Geo Sep 23 '14 at 08:45

Nignx Redirect rule to a different url based on a query

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