Nginx Redirect URL With HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Header

To redirect a URL with an HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently header in Nginx, you can use the return directive inside the server block in the Nginx configuration file.

For example, to redirect the URL http://example.com/old-url to http://example.com/new-url, you can add the following configuration to your Nginx configuration file:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name example.com;

    location /old-url {
        return 301 http://example.com/new-url;
    }
}

This will redirect all requests for http://example.com/old-url to http://example.com/new-url with an HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently header.

Keep in mind that you will need to reload or restart Nginx for the changes to take effect.

service nginx reload

Alternatively, you can use the rewrite directive to achieve the same result.

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name example.com;

    location /old-url {
        rewrite ^ http://example.com/new-url permanent;
    }
}

This will also redirect all requests for http://example.com/old-url to http://example.com/new-url with an HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently header.

Note: If you want to redirect a URL to a different domain, you will need to include the full URL in the return or rewrite directive.

For example:

return 301 http://new-domain.com/new-url;

rewrite ^ http://new-domain.com/new-url permanent;