Nginx - Redirect old links

Question

Let's say that i have thousand of old links that i want to redirect, all old links are like mydomain.com/1234-article-slug-name and the new links are like mydomain.com/article-slug-name.

I want to configure my nginx to remove article id from url and redirect to the new url.

I found my solution with apache, but can't figure it out how to achieve it on nginx.

Apache solution:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} [0-9]+- RewriteRule ^(.*)/[0-9]+-(.*)$ $1/$2 [R=301,L]

Answer 1

Please try below nginx configuration

location / {
  if ($request_uri ~ "[0-9]+-"){
    rewrite ^/(.*)/[0-9]+-(.*)$ /$1/$2 redirect;
  }
}