Rewrites in Nginx

Question

I need to enter a bunch or rewrites in my conf file in Nginx. I am not very experienced so I copied what I found before, example.

location = /index.php/blog/blog/xxx/yyy/ {
  return 301 /index.php/blog/xxx/yyy/;
 }

However I was told that the best way is the following:

location ^~ /index.php/blog/blog/xxx/yyy/ {
  rewrite ^/index.php/blog/xxx/yyy/;
 }

Which one id the correct one?

Answer 1

The first one is more correct, both location as well as the return -wise, and it'll work faster.

FWIIW, your second snippet looks like it's missing a space in the rewrite after ^ , and it's also less efficient, both location as well as rewrite -wise.

References:

• http://nginx.org/r/location
• http://nginx.org/r/return
• http://nginx.org/r/rewrite