# Remove URI string? **URL:** \ **Category:** NGINX\ **Created:** [January 9, 2013, 5:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/remove-uri-string/229354 "2013-01-09T17:36:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![daveyfx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@daveyfx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/daveyfx)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 5:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/remove-uri-string/229354/1 "2013-01-09T17:36:29Z")
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](http://host1.domain.com/blah), nginx will direct client to [http://host1.domain.com](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](http://host2.domain.com) and serve the same index page. Would the below work? server { server\_name [host1.domain.com](http://host1.domain.com) [host2.domain.com](http://host2.domain.com); rewrite ^ http://$server\_name; root /path/to/document/root; index index.html; } Thank you! Posted at Nginx Forum: > **[Remove URI string?](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,234822,234822#msg-234822)** > > Hello all - I would like to strip all request\_uri strings for a group of server names and serve up an index page. Example: Client requests http://host1.domain.com/blah, nginx will direct client to http://host1.domain.com and serve the index page.... ---
**Author:** ![daveyfx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@daveyfx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/daveyfx)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 5:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/remove-uri-string/229354/2 "2013-01-09T17:44:05Z")
On 9 January 2013 16:35, daveyfx [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Would the below work? > > server { > server\_name [host1.domain.com](http://host1.domain.com) [host2.domain.com](http://host2.domain.com); > rewrite ^ http://$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 M. // Oxford, London, UK > **[Jonathan Matthews :: Words Typed, Great Rates For Cash](https://www.jpluscplusm.com)** ---
**Author:** ![daveyfx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@daveyfx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/daveyfx)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 5:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/remove-uri-string/229354/3 "2013-01-10T05:36:18Z")
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: > **[Re: Remove URI string?](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,234822,234868#msg-234868)** > > 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.... ---
**Author:** ![daveyfx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@daveyfx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/daveyfx)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 5:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/remove-uri-string/229354/4 "2013-01-10T05:38:39Z")
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 11:35 AM, daveyfx [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > location = / { index index.html; } location / { return 302 /; } ---
**Author:** ![daveyfx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@daveyfx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/daveyfx)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 3:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/remove-uri-string/229354/5 "2013-01-10T15:43:28Z")
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 9:29 PM, daveyfx [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) 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. ---
**Author:** ![daveyfx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@daveyfx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/daveyfx)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 3:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/remove-uri-string/229354/6 "2013-01-10T15:29:26Z")
## Edho A. Wrote: > properly" I’m > } Thank you for the suggestion Edho. Unfortunately this still gave me a redirect loop. > * * * > > nginx mailing list > [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) > [mailman.nginx.org archive](http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx) Posted at Nginx Forum: [http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,234822,234906#msg-234906](http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,234822,234906#msg-234906) ---
**Author:** ![daveyfx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@daveyfx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/daveyfx)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 5:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/remove-uri-string/229354/7 "2013-01-10T17:13:53Z")
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 11:37:44AM +0700, Edho A. wrote: > On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 11:35 AM, daveyfx [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) 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](http://server/something) curl -i [http://server/](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 D. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![daveyfx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@daveyfx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/daveyfx)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 12:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/remove-uri-string/229354/8 "2013-01-11T00:26:08Z")
## Francis D. 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](http://host1.domain.com) [host2.domain.com](http://host2.domain.com) … … (so on and so forth) ``` root /path/to/document/root; location = / { try_files /index.html = 404; } location / { return 302 /; } ``` } > – > Francis D. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) Posted at Nginx Forum: [http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,234822,234914#msg-234914](http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,234822,234914#msg-234914)