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

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 2

Why use the rewrite module if you can do return? Technically speaking, return is part of the rewrite module as you can read here but this snippet is easier to read imho.

server {
    server_name  .domain.com;

    return 302 $scheme://forwarded-domain.com;
}

You can also give it a 301 redirect.

Answer 3

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 4

server_name supports suffix matches using .mydomain.com syntax:

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

or on any version 0.9.1 or higher:

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

Answer 5

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 6

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;

}