Nginx rewrite doesn't work without a subdomain?

Question

I'm trying to rewrite a particular url, but it doesn't seem to work unless a subdomain is included as part of the url. For example, given the following:

server {
  server_name .example.com ;
  listen  80  default;
  root  /usr/share/nginx/www/example/public;
  rewrite ^ /test redirect;
}

http://www.example.com/original correctly redirects to http://www.example.com/test. But http://example.com/original does not?

I'm running nginx 1.0.11 (custom built) on a Fedora box if that helps.

EDIT: PS - I've also tried server_name example.com *.example.com with no luck.

Answer 1

You can try redirecting any request to www.example.com go to example.com:

server {
    server_name www.example.com;
    listen 80 default;
    rewrite ^/(.*) http://example.com/$1 permanent;
}

server {
    server_name example.com;
    location /original/ {
        rewrite ^/(.*) http://example.com/test redirect;
    }
    # rest of config here;
}