Nginx server_name isn't applying to rewrite subdirectories.

Question

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;

}

Answer 1

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;

Answer 2

Hm, I can't fit this in your post so I figured I should put it here. Is this good practice for stackoverflow? I tried "curl -l" and it just returned the "not found" that I get when it's not redirected. But I used "curl -liL domain.com" and this is what came out.

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Server: nginx/1.2.1
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2012 17:30:01 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 184
Location: http://domain.com/store
Connection: keep-alive

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Server: nginx/1.2.1
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2012 17:30:01 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 184
Location: http://domain.com/store/
Connection: keep-alive

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Server: nginx/1.2.1
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2012 17:30:01 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: keep-alive
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.4.4
Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT
Last-Modified: Thu, 05 Jul 2012 17:30:01 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
P3P: CP="NON CURa ADMa DEVa TAIa CONi OUR DELa BUS IND PHY ONL UNI PUR COM NAV DEM STA"
Set-Cookie: xid_1f463=9cc017ff6c74884850d5bdfba1bfd5ae; path=/store; domain=IP; httponly
Location: http://IP/store/?xid_1f463=9cc017ff6c74884850d5bdfba1bfd5ae

HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Server: nginx/1.2.1
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2012 17:30:01 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: keep-alive
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.4.4
Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT
Last-Modified: Thu, 05 Jul 2012 17:30:01 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
P3P: CP="NON CURa ADMa DEVa TAIa CONi OUR DELa BUS IND PHY ONL UNI PUR COM NAV DEM STA"
Set-Cookie: xid_1f463=9cc017ff6c74884850d5bdfba1bfd5ae; path=/store; domain=IP; httponly
Location: http://IP/store/?xid_1f463=9cc017ff6c74884850d5bdfba1bfd5ae

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Server: nginx/1.2.1
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2012 17:30:01 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: keep-alive
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.4.4
Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT
Last-Modified: Thu, 05 Jul 2012 17:30:01 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
P3P: CP="NON CURa ADMa DEVa TAIa CONi OUR DELa BUS IND PHY ONL UNI PUR COM NAV DEM STA"
Set-Cookie: xid_1f463=9cc017ff6c74884850d5bdfba1bfd5ae; path=/store; domain=IP; httponly
Location: /store/home.php

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx/1.2.1
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2012 17:30:02 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: keep-alive
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.4.4
Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT
Last-Modified: Thu, 05 Jul 2012 17:30:01 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
P3P: CP="NON CURa ADMa DEVa TAIa CONi OUR DELa BUS IND PHY ONL UNI PUR COM NAV DEM STA"
Set-Cookie: xid_1f463=e7d9abf146153d7a49e3f08bda47c008; path=/store; domain=IP; httponly
Set-Cookie: RefererCookie=deleted; expires=Thu, 01-Jan-1970 00:00:01 GMT; path=/store; domain=IP; httponly
Set-Cookie: store_language=en; expires=Fri, 05-Jul-2013 17:30:01 GMT; path=/store; domain=IP