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Redirecting Nginx Parameters – SEO

I inherited a legacy site and for SEO reasons wish to redirect old parameter links to the new api. Like so:

www.example.com/section/?page=3 => www.example.com/page/3

Here is my attempt at a regex redirect:

location ~ ^/section/?page=(.*)/$ {
    return 301 https://www.example.com/page/$1;
}

I’ve used this pattern countless times without issue but after hours of poking I still can’t get the redirect working. Clearly Nginx treats parameters differently.

Any tips?

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  1. 0

    You have a trailing slash in your regex, so it would only match www.example.com/section/?page=3/.

    Try ^/section/?page=(.*)$

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  2. 0

    You don’t need regex here, it would add unnecessary processing overhead anyway.

    Nginx captures url parameters already. you can use the $args variable for all the parameters, or individual ones are prefixed $arg_, so assuming all your urls match this format you can just use a location block like this:

    location  /section/ {
    return 301 https://www.example.com/page/$arg_page;
}
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