Nginx rewrite rule for changing domain name in image urls

Question

I have Wordpress website which is live. In this website are a lot of posts with uploads over 200GB. I want to create in localhost development environment which I have done, but I have problems with posts images, because I don't want to download all of them and put in my localhost. So I am wondering if there is any Nginx rewrite rule which will rewrite only domain name in my image urls.

I need to rewrite this url:

https://example.local/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/10/very-nice-picture.png

To this one:

https://example.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/10/very-nice-picture.png

This is possible with Nginx or there is other better solution?

Answer 1

Here are your options:

• Use a redirection:

   location /wp-content/uploads/ { return 301 http://example.com$request_uri; # or use 302 to prevent redirection caching }

• Use transparent proxying:

   location /wp-content/uploads/ { proxy_pass http://example.com; }

You can also use remote files only in case they are missing on the local development server:

location /wp-content/uploads/ {
    try_files $uri @remote;
}
location @remote {
    # redirect or proxy the request as shown above
}