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I have been trying to redirect several single URLs to their new locations using Nginx. The URLs are from Blogger and are in the format: http://domain.com/yyyy/mm/slug.

For example, I have this: http://example.com/2013/04/chartjs-javascript-library-for-easy.html

I am using this Nginx rewrite to redirect it, but for some reason it doesn't work:

server {
     location ~ /([2012-2013]+)/.*/chartjs-javascript-library-for-easy.html {
                return 301 http://$server_name/resource/chart-js;
     }
}

I place this in /etc/nginx/conf.d/example.conf which is loaded inside /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

Can anybody tell me why it doesn't work? It was working sometime back. Am I messing up my regex?

EDIT:

For some reason, location /test redirects ok, but location /test/html doesn't. Any idea why?

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  • "/test redirects ok, but location /test/html doesn't" - is this a problem with ordering? Generally (regardless of platform), more specific rules should appear higher in the execution order.
    – MrWhite
    Dec 27, 2013 at 21:25

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Note that [2012-2013] doesn't mean what you think it does :) [] is a character class, not a number class :)

Try location ~ ^/201[23]/.*/chartjs-javascript-library-for-easy.html

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