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

You can simply write a if condition inside server {} block:

server { 

    if ($host = mydomain.com) {
        return 301 http://www.adifferentdomain.com;
    } 
}