How to redirect to a different domain using NGINX?

Question

How can I redirect mydomain.com and any subdomain *.mydomain.com to www.adifferentdomain.com using NGINX?

Answer 1

That should work via HTTPRewriteModule.

Example rewrite from www.example.com to example.com:

server {    
    server_name www.example.com;    
    rewrite ^ http://example.com$request_uri? permanent; 
}