Simple url rewrite in nginx

Question

How do I redirect:

/text1 to /

and

/test2 to /something/else

I tried putting:

rewrite ^ /test1 /
rewrite ^ /test2 /something/else

Inside the server {}

Answer 1

Just get rid of the space after the ^, and add the required ;:

rewrite ^/test1$ /;
rewrite ^/test2$ /something/else;

The $ characters denote the end of the string. Get rid of them if you want /test1/blah to match as well as /test1.

Edit: To send a redirect response to the browser add either redirect (for a 302 response) or permanent (for a 301 response) as a flag to your rewrite lines:

rewrite ^/test1$ / permanent;
rewrite ^/test2$ /something/else permanent;