That's actually more complicated than it needs to be, see http://wiki.nginx.org/Pitfalls#Taxing_Rewrites http://wiki.nginx.org/Pitfalls#Taxing_Rewrites Bad:

That's actually more complicated than it needs to be, see http://wiki.nginx.org/Pitfalls#Taxing_Rewrites http://wiki.nginx.org/Pitfalls#Taxing_Rewrites Bad: rewrite ^/(.*)$ http://domain.com/$1 permanent; Good: rewrite ^ http://domain.com$request_uri? permanent; Better: return 301 http://domain.com$request_uri;