Removing trailing slashes from certain URL's in nginx

Question

I recently moved my blog from using WordPress over to using Jekyll (I like the idea of static files for my blog). I'm using Nginx (was using it with PHP-FPM before) and have things setup to handle stuff. I've encountered one problem I do not know how to fix.

The URL structure I'm using is

/atthekeyboard/YYYY/MM/DD/title-of-post 

I have about 5 years worth of blog posts that have been indexed by Google and they are

/attheykeyboard/YYYY/MM/DD/title-of-post/

I want to rewrite all the older calls with the trailing slash to use the non-trailing slash URL until Google indexes all the new stuff.

Here is the nginx config stuff I have already:

    location /atthekeyboard {
            index index.html;
            try_files $uri.html $uri/ /notfound.html;
    }

I'm using try_files because the posts are actually saved as title-of-post.html and I didn't want the .html part.

Thanks in advance for your advice and solutions!

Answer 1

Something like this should remove the trailing slash and then let Nginx reparse the location blocks.

location ~ ^(/atthekeyboard/.+)/$ {
    set $noslash $1;
    rewrite ^ $noslash permanent;
}

Answer 2

i think the HTTPRewriteModule is what you are looking for