Forum: NGINX Remove URI string?

Hello all -

I would like to strip all request_uri strings for a group of server 
names
and serve up an index page.
Example:

Client requests http://host1.domain.com/blah, nginx will direct client 
to
http://host1.domain.com and serve the index page.  Same scenario for 
host2 -
I would like nginx to direct client to http://host2.domain.com and serve 
the
same index page.

Would the below work?

server {
    server_name host1.domain.com host2.domain.com;
    rewrite ^ http://$server_name;
    root /path/to/document/root;
    index index.html;
}

Thank you!

Posted at Nginx Forum: 
http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,234822,234822#msg-234822

On 9 January 2013 16:35, daveyfx <nginx-forum@nginx.us> wrote:
>
> Would the below work?
>
> server {
>     server_name host1.domain.com host2.domain.com;
>     rewrite ^ http://$server_name;
>     root /path/to/document/root;
>     index index.html;
> }

Have you tried it? How about doing that?

It looks ok to me, but running it on a test machine will probably tell
you all you need to know ...

Jonathan
--
Jonathan Matthews // Oxford, London, UK
http://www.jpluscplusm.com/contact.html

I gave it a try and it did not work out.  My access log repeated the
following entry ~ 20 times.

[09/Jan/2013:23:31:47 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 302 160 "-" "Mozilla/5.0
(Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0"

Firefox kindly informed me that "The page isn't redirecting properly" 
I'm
guessing it's getting caught in an infinite redirect.

Is there anything else I can try?

Thank you!

Posted at Nginx Forum: 
http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,234822,234868#msg-234868

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 11:35 AM, daveyfx <nginx-forum@nginx.us> wrote:
>
location = / {
  index index.html;
}
location / {
  return 302 /;
}

Edho Arief Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> properly"  I'm
> }
>

Thank you for the suggestion Edho.  Unfortunately this still gave me a
redirect loop.

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Posted at Nginx Forum: 
http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,234822,234906#msg-234906

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 9:29 PM, daveyfx <nginx-forum@nginx.us> wrote:
>> >
>> location / {
>>   return 302 /;
>> }
>>
>
> Thank you for the suggestion Edho.  Unfortunately this still gave me a
> redirect loop.
>

clear your browser's history. Actually, don't use browser for testing
redirect. Use curl.

And make sure you've removed all other rewrites.

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 11:37:44AM +0700, Edho Arief wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 11:35 AM, daveyfx <nginx-forum@nginx.us> wrote:

Hi there,

> > I gave it a try and it did not work out.  My access log repeated the
> > following entry ~ 20 times.

As mentioned:

  curl -i http://server/something
  curl -i http://server/

are much friendlier for testing with. You'll see exactly what the server
sends back.

> location = / {
>   index index.html;
> }
> location / {
>   return 302 /;
> }

With that configuration, a request for / will lead to an internal
rewrite to /index.html, which will then hit the second location and do
an external redirect again.

So either add a third "location = /index.html" to handle that, or avoid
the internal rewrite by doing something like

  try_files /index.html =404

in the "location = /" block.

  f
--
Francis Daly        francis@daoine.org

Francis Daly Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> As mentioned:
> > }
> the internal rewrite by doing something like
>
>   try_files /index.html =404
>
> in the "location = /" block.
>
>   f

To all -

Thank you for your help with this.  Francis put the puzzle together and 
the
following is working out great for me.

server {
    server_name
    host1.domain.com
    host2.domain.com
    ...
    ... (so on and so forth)

    root /path/to/document/root;

    location = / {
        try_files /index.html = 404;
    }

    location / {
        return 302 /;
    }
}

> --
> Francis Daly        francis@daoine.org

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