Nginx Redirect based on what is contained in the url

Question

I am a noob when it comes to redirect and rewrites and such... My goal is to do a redirect based on what is sent to the server. Example of the urls that will be sent:

https://example.org/git/#123

https://example.org/git/!123

and redirect to url based if ! or # is part of it if ! then it would go to https://git.example2.com/userhere/repohere/merge_requests/123 if # then it would go to https://git.example2.com/userhere/repohere/issues/123

Some help with a nginx location block would be nice.

Answer 1

You can't match #123. So you need to use different character ie &

Use below sample rule.

if ($request_uri ~ "^(.*)/!123)"{
return 301 https://git.example2.com/userhere/repohere/merge_requests/123;
}
if ($request_uri ~ "^(.*)/!456)"{
return 301 https://git.example2.com/userhere/repohere/merge_requests/456;
}