Nginx rewrite subdomain to subdirectory without changing the URL

Question

I've been using Appserv for a while and moved to Nginx for now. When I was running my website under Appache I had this configuration in the .htaccess file in order to link the subdomain to the subdirectory.

#Redirect API subdomain to API folder
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^api\.domain\.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/request/
RewriteRule (.*) /request/$1

I tried to add this configuration to the nginx.conf file to do the same:

location ^~ /request/ {
    rewrite ^/request/(.*) http://api.example.com/$1 permanent;
}

It seems like it doesn't work since I'm being redirected to the main domain URL. How do I manage to do that in Nginx ?

`RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/request/` and `location ^~ /request/` have absolutely different meanings. — Alexey Ten, Sep 11 '15 at 14:38
How should rewrited request be processed? Proxied? Serving static file? Something else? — Alexey Ten, Sep 11 '15 at 14:38

h0tw1r3 · Answer 1 · 2015-09-11T20:15:11.300

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there are a few different ways of doing it, but my preference for being easy to read:

    location / {
        if ($http_host = api.domain.com) {
            try_files /request$uri =404;
        }
    }

nginx documentation converting Apache rewrite rules.

edited Sep 11 '15 at 20:15

answered Sep 11 '15 at 14:46

h0tw1r3

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Better to use separate server block instead of if – Alexey Ten Sep 11 '15 at 17:50
@AlexeyTen how is this "better". The official documentation shows examples exactly like this. – h0tw1r3 Sep 11 '15 at 18:55
http://wiki.nginx.org/IfIsEvil. Also server block match domain name more efficiently than `if` – Alexey Ten Sep 12 '15 at 08:12

Nginx rewrite subdomain to subdirectory without changing the URL

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