Monthly Archives: March 2014

nginx error page depends on user browser language

Posted by on March 12, 2014 No comments

Task – return different pages depends on user browser language.
i.e. different html if backend return error. And for domain it.randomthemes.com always return english error page on backend error.

nginx.conf

map $http_accept_language $lang {
    default en;
    ~ru ru;
          }

Server context:

set $ep /50x.html; #default error page

if ( $host ~* it.randomthemes.com ) {
set $ep /50x.en.html;
}


if ( $lang ~* en ) {
set $ep /50x.en.html;
}

error_page  503          /dinner.html;
error_page  500 502 504  $ep;
error_page  400          /400.html;

nginx 301 redirect entire domain

Posted by on March 6, 2014 No comments

Task – redirect all requests from old-domain.com to new-domain.com
use nginx, luke! It`s simple.

server {
        server_name old-domain.com www.old-domain.com;
        rewrite ^/(.*)$ http://new-domain.com/$1 permanent;
}