A redirect-only vhost

[zachfi]

We're in the process of evaluating this module instead of our own for various reasons, but I am having trouble reproducing a config that we use pretty commonly. I'm willing to add support if it turns out thats required, but I thought I'd ask if there was a clean way to do this with the module in its current form.

First, here is the resulting vhost I am trying to produce.

server {
  listen   *:80;
  server_name sitea.example.com;
  rewrite ^/(.*) http://siteb.example.com/$1 permanent;
}

So here there are no locations, no other resources, just receive requests on sitea.example.com and redirect them to siteb.example.com. Pretty simple.

Now the manifest I tried to work out to do this.

  nginx::resource::vhost { 'sitea.example.com':
    use_default_location => false,
    index_files          => [],
    location_custom_cfg  => {},
    rewrite_rules        => [
      '^/(.*) http://siteb.example.com/$1 permanent',
    ],
  }

I'm willing to suspend my annoyance at the lack of brevity required here, but this doesn't do what I need, since the rewrite_rules[] only exists within the location blocks. Nginx supports the ability to have rewrite rules in the server blocks, so it seems to me that the module should also support this.

Is there a way that those more experienced with this module can think of to produce the desired state with what exists today? If so, how? If not, what would be the best approach I could take to add support?

I was thinking some kind of rewrite_only for nginx::resource::vhost, but from what I can tell that class seems to revolve around a location based server resource block.

Any insight would be appreciated.

Cheers.

[jfryman]

@xaque208 You're spot on. Right now, the rewrite rules are only in the location block. PR's most certainly accepted.

[ShonM]

I'm interested in this - from what I can see it's not possible. Can anyone confirm that? I'm going to keep looking, and maybe submit a PR this week

[guzmanbraso]

I think It's possible to have a setup like that with today features but maybe sure it's not friendly, something like this should do the trick:

nginx::resource::vhost { 'sitea.example.com':
    use_default_location => false,
    index_files          => [],
    location_custom_cfg  => {},
    vhost_cfg_append     => {
        'rewrite'      => '^/(.*) http://siteb.example.com/$1 permanent'
    }
}

[tim-massey]

Thanks, works for me 👍 .

[khaefeli]

I think this rewrite solutions are bad at all.
see: http://wiki.nginx.org/Pitfalls

why not providing a nginx::ressource::vhost with a scheme 301 redirect?

server {
  server_name www.domain.com;
  return 301 $scheme://domain.com$request_uri;
}

or:

 return 301 http://domain.com$request_uri;

instead of:

rewrite ^/(.*)$ http://domain.com/$1 permanent;

[levpaul]

I also want something like @khaefeli is suggesting. Any updates on providing this?

[joshuagordondba]

I have done this unfortunately, I am not at work but hope to remember to
update this on Monday. It was not east to figure out perhaps this should be
added as an option.
On Sep 16, 2015 10:41 PM, "Levi Lovelock" notifications@github.com wrote:

I also want something like @khaefeli https://github.com/khaefeli is
suggesting. Any updates on providing this?

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[j4ybee]

@joshuagordondba it's Monday today, even though a few month later ;) , so I wanted to send a little reminder as I am very interested in your solution!

[bernhardjt]

What do you think of #774 ?

[wyardley]

Sorry for the lack of discussion / merge for this. I will comment in #774

[wyardley]

It would be nice to have the way to do a return and suppress the rest of the configs in the vhost, similar to what we do with the SSL rewrite or when ssl_only is set....

[NimishKmr]

Hello,
Do we have a solution for this. I am need of this as we have to redirect our old site to new site. And my nginx puppet config is a bit complex. We have multiple websites and we have manifest files where we provide server_name, port, mage_run_code, etc. I would like to add redirect/rewrite rule in this manifest for a particular site. How to achieve this?

[h0tw1r3]

I think this should be closed.
Solution with puppet/nginx 1.0.0:

nginx::resource::server { 'somewhere.old':
  maintenance       => true,
  maintenance_value => 'return 301 $scheme://somewhere.new$request_uri',
}

[ekohl]

Thanks!