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Nginx server_name isn't applying to rewrite subdirectories.

I'm trying to use nginx to redirect my main page (www.domain.com) to a subdirectory (www.domain.com/store). I have the redirect working, but whenever I use the domain name it will redirect me to the ip address (www.IP.com/store). This is my server nginx config. Thank you in advance for any help! 

    server {
    listen       80 default_server;
    server_name *.domain.com;

    location  / {
        index  index.php index.html index.htm;
    }
    location = / {
        rewrite ^/store permanent;
    }

    root   /usr/local/www/nginx;

}

Solution

  • You missed a space. rewrite ^/store permanent; will try to match '/store' at the beginning of the uri path (thanks to the ^) and if it matches, it will rewrite it to 'permanent'. Since this is inside location = /, it will never succeed. Instead, you need:

    rewrite ^ /store permanent;