# Nginx rewrite question

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-rewrite-question/205085>\
**Category:** NGINX\
**Created:** [March 29, 2011, 7:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-rewrite-question/205085 "2011-03-29T07:39:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/0ea827/32.png) [@luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/luislavena)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 7:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-rewrite-question/205085/1 "2011-03-29T07:39:26Z")

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Hello  
I want to konw nginx rewrite ,how to write rewrite /indxe.htm to  
/dir/  
ex: [XXXX](http://xxxx.com/index.htm) redirecting [http://xxxx.com/](http://xxxx.com/)

Posted at Nginx Forum:

> **[Nginx rewrite question](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,186516,186516#msg-186516)**
>
> Hello I want to konw nginx rewrite ,how to write rewrite /indxe.htm to /dir/ ex: http://xxxx.com/index.htm redirecting http://xxxx.com/

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**Author:** ![jinjun502](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/f04885/32.png) [@jinjun502](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jinjun502)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 11:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-rewrite-question/205085/2 "2011-03-29T11:38:56Z")

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On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 01:39:05AM -0400, jinjun502 wrote:

> Hello  
> I want to konw nginx rewrite ,how to write rewrite /indxe.htm to  
> /dir/  
> ex: [XXXX](http://xxxx.com/index.htm) redirecting [http://xxxx.com/](http://xxxx.com/)

location = / {  
try\_files $uri/index.htm =404;  
root /path/to/files;  
}

location = /index.htm {  
return 301 [http://xxxx.com/](http://xxxx.com/);  
}

–  
Igor S.

> **[Igor Sysoev](http://sysoev.ru/en/)**

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**Author:** ![jinjun502](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/f04885/32.png) [@jinjun502](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jinjun502)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 2:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-rewrite-question/205085/3 "2011-03-29T14:10:52Z")

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something like that:

location = /index.htm {  
rewrite ^/.\*$ http://$host? permanent;  
}

Posted at Nginx Forum:

> **[Re: Nginx rewrite question](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,186516,186598#msg-186598)**
>
> Hello I want to konw nginx rewrite ,how to write rewrite /indxe.htm to /dir/ ex: http://xxxx.com/index.htm redirecting http://xxxx.com/

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**Author:** ![jinjun502](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/f04885/32.png) [@jinjun502](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jinjun502)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 2:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-rewrite-question/205085/4 "2011-03-29T14:59:41Z")

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Oh thanks It’s work

Posted at Nginx Forum:

> **[Re: Nginx rewrite question](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,3921,186604#msg-186604)**
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> Hello, perhaps someone here could help me with the following problem. i got a domain justfornow.com which got a wildcard dns entry, and i need to redirect this domain to https. but i have to keep the first part of the domain, for example: user ca