Nginx redirect for -only- homepage of old domain, to homepage of new domain

Question

On the server.rewrites file within the nginx/ map, I have the following logic for redirecting the homepage of an old domain, to the homepage of a new domain:

if ($http_host ~ ^(www\.)?olddomain.com ) {
   return 301 https://www.newdomain.com$request_uri;
}

This is not working as expected, because all other url's inside the old domain are also being redirected.

Example: olddomain.com/someurl is being redirected to newdomain.com/someurl, and the redirect should only work for the home page.

Any ideas on how I could adjust the above mentioned code? Thanks for your contributions.

Answer 1

in your server block for specific domain change root location to:

location = / {
    return 301 http://www.newdomain.com/;
}

http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#location

Let’s illustrate the above by an example:

location = / {
    [ configuration A ]
}

location / {
    [ configuration B ]
}

location /documents/ {
    [ configuration C ]
}

location ^~ /images/ {
    [ configuration D ]
}

location ~* \.(gif|jpg|jpeg)$ {
    [ configuration E ]
}

The “/” request will match configuration A, the “/index.html” request will match configuration B, the “/documents/document.html” request will match configuration C, the “/images/1.gif” request will match configuration D, and the “/documents/1.jpg” request will match configuration E.

The “@” prefix defines a named location. Such a location is not used for a regular request processing, but instead used for request redirection. They cannot be nested, and cannot contain nested locations.