Rewrite root address to a subdirectory in nginx

Question

I\'m converting my mediawiki site to use nginx as a frontend for static files with apache on the backend for php. I\'ve gotten everything working so far except for when I vi

Answer 1

I found help in the nginx irc chat.

Basically what I needed to do was use a return instead of rewrite. So I changed this:

location = / {
    rewrite "^$" /wiki/Main_Page;
}

to this:

location = / {
    return 301 http://www.example.com/wiki/Main_Page;
}