Hello! On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 12:06:54PM -0800, neubyr wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Maxim Dounin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello! > > > > On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 11:21:40AM -0800, neubyr wrote: > > > > > I am trying to understand which option would result in more efficient > > HTTP > > > redirection. I am trying to redirect ^/address page to ^/contact page. > > > > > > Option 1: > > > rewrite ^/address /contact permanent; > > > > > > Option 2: > > > location ~ ^/address { > > > return 301 $scheme://$host/contact > > > } > > > > > > Which option should be preferred? Both options involve regex and I am not > > > sure which one will be faster. Are there any other better options? > > > > location = /address { > > return 301 /contact; > > } > > > > > > > Thank you Maxim!! That's helpful. I should have used precise location match > and relative redirect path. > > Also, can something with following rewrite be converted to 'location and > return' combination? > > rewrite ^/members/(.*) /users/$1 > > Or am I better with rewrite directive in this case? Appreciate any help. For such cases rewrite is better, IMHO. In some cases it may be a good idea to additionally isolate it with prefix location, like this: location /members/ { rewrite ^/members/(.*) /users/$1 redirect; } -- Maxim Dounin http://nginx.org/ _______________________________________________ nginx mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx
