nginx user_agent redirect

Question

I want to redirect IE users to a static file, regardless of what page they were trying to reach.

My code is inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* msie ) { rewrite ^.+$ /msie.html last; }

No matter what I try, I either get a 404 or a 500 Internal Server Error. Am I doing this correctly?

Answer 1

Found a way to do it by doing:

try_files $uri /msie.html;