nginx: How to mass permanent redirect from a given list?

Question

I have about 400 url that will change in the new version and for some reasons I can\'t repeat the same type of url structure in the new website.

My question is, can

Answer 1

Probably the easiest way to do that is to wrap map directive around your list. The configuration in this case would look like this:

map $request_uri $new_uri {
    default "";
    /old/page1.html /new/page1.html;
    /old/page2.html /new/page2.html;
    ...
}

server {
    ...

    if ($new_uri != "") {
        rewrite ^(.*)$ $new_uri permanent;
    }

    ...
}