Rewriting URLs with NGINX

Question

I recently moved a website from a subfolder and I'm having difficulty understanding how to do URL rewrites in NGINX so external links to the website will still work.

Basically, I need links to http://example.com/abc to redirect to http://example.com

This is the first time I've had to deal with this on NGINX so forgive me if this is ridiculously simple to do. Here's what I think I need to put in the NGINX config file:

server {
    listen       80;
    server_name  example.com/abc;
    return       301 http://www.example.com;
}

Am I on the right track?

Do you want a redirect, or a rewrite? One of them tells the user's browser to go to a different location, and the other serves the content they wanted, but at another location. — psycotica0, Dec 04 '14 at 22:47

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:22

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If you mean redirect, you should check out https://stackoverflow.com/a/10303879/46842. It's not the same question, but the answer is very similar.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:22

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