On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 06:09:10AM -0400, petecooper wrote: Hi there,
> I'm diverting traffic from an retired MediaWiki site to an active static > site. I'm somewhat confused with the process of `rewrite`-ing old URLs with > a query string to standard URLs *without* a query string on the static site. > For clarity, I do not need or want query strings on the new site. In this case, it looks to me that you can probably "return" rather than "rewrite", since everything should probably be a http redirect. > Retired URLs examples: > > https://example.com/wiki/index.php?title=en/Main_Page > https://example.com/wiki/index.php?title=Glossary > https://example.com/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Troubleshooting > > New URLs examples: > > https://example.net/MainPage > https://example.net/Glossary > https://example.net/Troubleshooting > > All the retired URLs are attached to `/wiki/index.php` with a single query > string. > > There is no direct correlation between the old URLs and the new ones, and I > have a before-and-after list of URLs to put into a 200+ entry `rewrite` > list. > > My question is two-fold: > > 1) Is it better (objectively) to have all the rewrite rules inside a > `location` referring to `/wiki/index.php` since the only non-Mediawiki URL > on the retired site is `/`? Yes. Except I would have the config be not a lot more than location = /wiki/index.php { return 301 https://example.net/$my_static_wiki; } > 2) How can I best build the `rewrite` list without using `if` or nested > `map`? map $arg_title $my_static_wiki { default ""; # or whatever en/Main_Page MainPage; Glossary Glossary; Category:Troubleshooting Troubleshooting; } Make that map (http://nginx.org/r/map) be as big as you like. And you can "include" an external file if you find that easier. Note: I use "$arg_title" are the string. You could use "$query_string", but then the matching values would be of the form title=en/Main_Page. And because I put "http://example.net/"; in the "return" directive, I don't put that part of the destination url in the map. Adjust to taste. > I am grateful for your time and attention, and I would very much appreciate > an example rewrite rule and/or some reading recommendations for `rewrite` > with query strings. If you still want to know about rewrite with query strings, you can look at http://nginx.org/r/rewrite Basically -- the incoming query string is preserved unless you ask for it not to be. Good luck with it, f -- Francis Daly fran...@daoine.org _______________________________________________ nginx mailing list nginx@nginx.org http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx
