Can not use 301 redirect in NGINX

Question

I have a web site which is translated to 18 languages. Some languages are the same (Brazilian is Portuguese). So I want to redirect from br to pt to avoid odd content, from /some_domain/br/... -> /some_domain/pt/...

I can write single redirect from one domain to another. Something like this:

location = /user/unique {
       return 301 http://www.usgreencardoffice.com/blog/the-american-dream;
    }

I want to achieve the following: domain.com/br/something -> domain.com/pt/something

But for the languages redirection, I have no idea. How can I achieve this?

[This](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3657614/how-to-rewrite-location-in-nginx-depending-on-the-client-browsers-language) post might help solve your problems — Keenan Lawrence, Jun 22 '16 at 13:00
This post is about another problem, which can be solved by right routing directly from the project. — David Martirosyan, Jun 22 '16 at 13:04

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 22 '16 at 13:15

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If the language code is at the beginning of the URI, a prefix location will be an efficient solution:

location ^~ /br/ {
    rewrite ^/br(.*)$ /pt$1 permanent;
}

The ^~ modifier makes this prefix location take precedence over regex locations at the same level. If you change permanent to last, the rewrite becomes internal and thus invisible to the user.

See this and this for details.

answered Jun 22 '16 at 13:15

Richard Smith

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Great! The problem is solved! Thanks you for details. – David Martirosyan Jun 23 '16 at 11:50

Can not use 301 redirect in NGINX

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