NGINX location rewrite URL with or without trailing slash

Question

Currently I have this location block:

location = /events {
    rewrite ^ https://totallydifferenturl.com;
}

This successfully redirects from mywebsite/events, but I want this block to also handle mywebsite/events/.

Trying location = /events/? didn't work out.

Wiktor Stribiżew · Accepted Answer · 2016-09-07 20:04:54Z

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You need the ~ operator to enable regex matching, and since you only need to match website/events or website/events/ as full strings, you will need anchors ^ and $ around the pattern:

location ~ ^/events/?$
         ^ ^         ^

The ^/events/?$ pattern matches:

^ - start of input
/events - a literal substring /events
/? - one or zero / symbols
$ - end of input.

edited Sep 7, 2016 at 20:04

answered Sep 7, 2016 at 19:56

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2 Comments

robinnnnn Over a year ago

This is perfect. What would be the implication if I ignored the anchors and simply used /events/? Would it also match something like website/random/events/query?

Wiktor Stribiżew Over a year ago

Yes, it would match /events or /events/ anywhere inside the string.

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