NGINX: remove part of url permanantly
There are a number of options. You could protect the rewrite within a location block which would be quite efficient as the regular expression is only tested if the URI prefix matches:
location ^~ /forum/showPost { rewrite ^/forum/showPost(.*)$ $1 permanent;}See this document for more.
You used permanent in your question - which generates a 301 response.
If you use redirect instead of permanent - a 302 response will be generated.
If you use last instead of permanent - an internal redirect will occur and the browser address bar will continue to show the old URL.
In response to your comment:
rewrite ^/forum/showPost(.*)$ /post$1 permanent;
server { listen 80; ## Listen on port 80 ## server_name example.com; ## Domain Name ## index index.html index.php; ## Set the index for site to use ## charset utf-8; ## Set the charset ## location ^~ /forum/showPost { rewrite ^/forum/showPost(.*)$ $1 permanent; } location ^~ /business/showDetails { rewrite ^(.*)business/showDetails(.*)$ classifieds$1 permanent; }}