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I know about the HttpRewriteModule, but I don't really know how to handle regex and I would need to redirect all URLs within a certain directory to another, specifically:

From: example.com/component/tag/whatever

To: example.com/tag/whatever

Could some one tell me how to do this in Nginx?

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Do you mean something like:

rewrite ^/component(.*)$ $1 last;
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  • I think this will do it, thank you so much. I'm awful at regular expressions; I will have to try to learn them...
    – javipas
    Commented Aug 18, 2011 at 12:05
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    regex101.com/r/qJ5gU1/1 has explanation on the right side
    – Jon
    Commented Mar 25, 2015 at 11:13
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    You may need to replace last by break. (Last will try to resolve other locations after the rewrite).
    – Thomas Decaux
    Commented Apr 11, 2015 at 9:57
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    It only worked for me with break and not with last.
    – Guillaume
    Commented Jun 20, 2017 at 9:38
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    last = stop rewriting this request and search for a new matching location block, and break = stop rewriting this request and continue execution within the current location block
    – NoChecksum
    Commented Jan 28, 2019 at 17:44
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Depending where you define the rewrite directive you have two ways to implement it:

A. In the server context

server {
    ...
    rewrite ^/component(.*)$ $1 last;
    ...
}

B. In the location context

location /component {
    rewrite ^/component(.*)$ $1 break;
}

Teo, why did you change the flag last to break? Because, if this directive is put inside of a location context, the last flag will make nginx to run 10 cycles and return the 500 error.

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