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NGINX Cookbook

By : Tim Butler
Book Image

NGINX Cookbook

By: Tim Butler

Overview of this book

NGINX Cookbook covers the basics of configuring NGINX as a web server for use with common web frameworks such as WordPress and Ruby on Rails, through to utilization as a reverse proxy. Designed as a go-to reference guide, this book will give you practical answers based on real-world deployments to get you up and running quickly. Recipes have also been provided for multiple SSL configurations, different logging scenarios, practical rewrites, and multiple load balancing scenarios. Advanced topics include covering bandwidth management, Docker container usage, performance tuning, OpenResty, and the NGINX Plus commercial features. By the time you've read this book, you will be able to adapt and use a wide variety of NGINX implementations to solve any problems you have.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Redirecting to a new domain

If a product or company decides to rebrand and rename, then one key part of this is to redirect the old domain to the new one. Even the top names such as Google (who started as BackRub) and eBay (who started as AuctionWeb) have had to go through this process, so it's more common than people realize.

In order to maintain all previous links and functionalities, ensuring all URLs are redirected to the new domain is critical. Thankfully, all that's required is a simple redirect with a rewrite to ensure that the full URL and all arguments are correctly sent to the new domain.

How to do it...

As in the previous recipe, we need to have two distinct server blocks. Here's how to redirect the...