Creating 301 redirects in Nginx server

This tutorial assumes that your web server was setup using easyengine.

1. Create the redirects.conf file within /var/www/example.com/conf/nginx folder.
2. Write your redirect rules in the file created above, an example
   
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   location /wp-content/uploads/2015/08/BannerContent-Onboarding.docx { return 301 https://example.com/onboarding/; }

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   location /wp-content/uploads/2015/08/BannerContent-Onboarding.docx {     return 301 https://example.com/onboarding/; }

   
    
3. Save the file and on command line type, the command below to test the configuration file.
   
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   nginx -t

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   nginx -t

   
    
4. Finally, load the configurations for the nginx server using
   
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   service nginx reload

   1	service nginx reload