NGINX: How do I redirect all of the old posts from a /blog url to a /blogs/ url?

Question

The situation is this:

I moved my site a while ago, and I changed http://www.getridofthings.com/blog to http://www.getridofthings.com/blogs/ to include more authors with their own blogs. The problem now, is that Google Webmaster Tools is telling me I have a bunch of 404s. We deleted the old blog posts because they were poor quality, but I want to collect all of the incoming links from those various blog posts and direct them simply to the /blogs/ url.

How do I write this rule in NGINX? I've tried many methods, and I keep getting "too many redirects" or "redirect loop" errors.

Right now, I'm using this: 'location /blog(/.*) { return 301 http://www.getridofthings.com/blogs/; }' — user1698085, May 02 '14 at 15:27
possible duplicate of [nginx rewrite redirect for a folder](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18305189/nginx-rewrite-redirect-for-a-folder) — MultiformeIngegno, May 02 '14 at 15:33

clinton3141 · Answer 1 · 2014-05-03T09:15:44.690

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This should do the trick.

server {
  listen: 127.0.0.1;
  server_name: example.com;

  rewrite ^/blog/(.*)$ /blogs/$1 redirect;
}

It works by saying that it wants /blog/ to be at the beginning of the url. If there's anything after the /, it will be stored in $1 which is appended to /blogs/. There are no redirect loops because /blogs/ cannot match those conditions.

Redirects that will happen:

/blog/ to /blogs/
/blog/blog-article-1/ to /blogs/blog-article-1/

edited May 03 '14 at 09:15

answered May 02 '14 at 15:05

clinton3141

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That resulted in a URL that looks like this: /blogs/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/ – user1698085 May 02 '14 at 15:25

NGINX: How do I redirect all of the old posts from a /blog url to a /blogs/ url?

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