Re: RE: RE: RE: Redirect Question for Directory Structure Change

2020-09-10 Thread figshta
Reinis, Thank you so much for all your help! I have succeeded in getting things set up for now. I couldn't have done it with out you guys. I have learned a lot form you and Francis and I am very grateful. Thank you for being patient with my ignorance. Sorry to both of you for wasting your time

Re: Redirect Question for Directory Structure Change

2020-09-10 Thread J.R.
You really should use a custom named capture group as the default "$1" (and $2, $3, $4...) can cause erroneous output if there is any other capturing going on in your configuration files... i.e. location ~ ^/e/(?.*) { return 301 /$x1$is_args$args; } As someone else mentioned, be

Re: RE: RE: RE: Redirect Question for Directory Structure Change

2020-09-10 Thread figshta
>You should clean cache (or set to never cache) for each testing session/config change as browsers tend to cache the redirects very heavily (especially for static content). >A better way as Francis suggested is to use a curl or other tools (like wget -S ..) which don't cache anything and you'll al

RE: RE: RE: Redirect Question for Directory Structure Change

2020-09-10 Thread Reinis Rozitis
> Please bear with me... > It seems that I'm getting different results than I described earlier... > > In fact it is now working for the most part... > The errors are limited to certain files in Chrome on the Mac, but not in > Safari > or Firefox. You should clean cache (or set to never cache) f

Re: RE: RE: Redirect Question for Directory Structure Change

2020-09-10 Thread figshta
Thank you Reinis! Please bear with me... It seems that I'm getting different results than I described earlier... In fact it is now working for the most part... The errors are limited to certain files in Chrome on the Mac, but not in Safari or Firefox. >What do you mean by "got deeper" can you g

RE: RE: Redirect Question for Directory Structure Change

2020-09-10 Thread Reinis Rozitis
> I was wrong... > > >This seems to work: > >>rewrite ^/e/(.*) /$1 permanent; > > It only works for the first level... > 'threedaystubble.com/Gallery.html' works but other links from that page that > got deeper into the file structure do not! What do you mean by "got deeper" can you give a sampl

Re: RE: Redirect Question for Directory Structure Change

2020-09-09 Thread figshta
I was wrong... >This seems to work: >>rewrite ^/e/(.*) /$1 permanent; It only works for the first level... 'threedaystubble.com/Gallery.html' works but other links from that page that got deeper into the file structure do not! So, maybe map directive is needed after all... I'm planing to try

Re: RE: Redirect Question for Directory Structure Change

2020-09-09 Thread figshta
Thank you Reinis. I really appreciate your help and your patience. I am trying to learn this, so seeing what how it works is very useful. To be clear, hopefully, I need all the (multiple) subdirectories of threedaystubble.com/e/ in existing inbound links to refer to the new structure threedaystub

RE: Redirect Question for Directory Structure Change

2020-09-09 Thread Reinis Rozitis
It is a bit unclear if you want only a single rewrite or are there multiple different directory mappings/redirects. > I tried a couple of ideas, but they didn't work, I thought this location > directive > inside a server block was best, but it didn't work. > > location = /e { >return 31

Redirect Question for Directory Structure Change

2020-09-09 Thread figshta
I'm looking for help with a permanent site-wide redirect. I have a website that I moved to a new server. For some crazy reason the old server had an odd structure that I am changing. The URL root for the old site is http://threedaystubble.com/e/ I have changed it to be http://threedaystubble.com