Nginx and rewrite rule redirection from html

Question

I've got problem with making rewrite rule in nginx and i need your help. How to make rewrite rule from http://www.example.com/2015/03/link-to-page.html to http://www.example.com/link-to-page/ I've tried this

location / {
rewrite "^/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/(.*)\.html?$" /$1/ redirect;
}

but it's not working. Thank you

Answer 1

That looks like you are matching the entire url. The "^" at the beginning is the start of the string, not the exclude character.

rewrite "^/\d{4}/\d{2}/(?<domain>.+)$"  http://$host/$domain permanent;

The domain variable is regex name. It can be anything.