How to redirect to a different domain using NGINX?

Question

How can I redirect mydomain.com and any subdomain *.mydomain.com to www.adifferentdomain.com using NGINX?

Answer 1

You can simply write a if condition inside server {} block:

server { 

    if ($host = mydomain.com) {
        return 301 http://www.adifferentdomain.com;
    } 
}

Answer 2

server {
    server_name .mydomain.com;
    return 301 http://www.adifferentdomain.com$request_uri;
}

http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpRewriteModule#return

and

http://wiki.nginx.org/Pitfalls#Taxing_Rewrites

Answer 3

Temporary redirect

rewrite ^ http://www.RedirectToThisDomain.com$request_uri? redirect;

Permanent redirect

rewrite ^ http://www.RedirectToThisDomain.com$request_uri? permanent;

In nginx configuration file for specific site:

server {    
    server_name www.example.com;
    rewrite ^ http://www.RedictToThisDomain.com$request_uri? redirect;

}

Answer 4

That should work via HTTPRewriteModule.

Example rewrite from www.example.com to example.com:

server {    
    server_name www.example.com;    
    rewrite ^ http://example.com$request_uri? permanent; 
}

Answer 5

If you would like to redirect requests for "domain1.com" to "domain2.com", you could create a server block that looks like this:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name domain1.com;
    return 301 $scheme://domain2.com$request_uri;
}

Answer 6

I'm using this code for my sites

server {
        listen 80;
        listen 443;
        server_name  .domain.com;

        return 301 $scheme://newdomain.com$request_uri;
}