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I am trying to achieve a redirection in nginx that should happen only if a specific argument and value pair is existing.

For example : https://www.mywebsite.com/search?abc=453?hjh=7484?foo=bar?joe=blah

should be proxied to an application only if hjh=7484 is present in the request_uri. This can be anywhere in the whole URL, that said its position is not fixed.

If the incoming request against search page doesn't have hjh=7484 the request should be redirected to https://www.mynewwebsite.com/

I have tried putting 

    location ~* /search(.*)?hjh=7484(.*)?$ {
    proxy_pass $my_app;
}

Above is ending in 404.

2019/01/21 15:48:47 [error] 113#113: *109 open() "/usr/share/nginx/html/search" failed (2: No such file or directory),

If I change the above regex and allow any requests to search page to be passed its working!

Raju Divakaran
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2 Answers2

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The location only matches the URI path component. It does not match query strings.

You can check the value of the argument instead, for instance:

location /search {
    if ($arg_hjh = 7484) {
        proxy_pass @my_app;
    }
    # do something else
}
Michael Hampton
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I am able to get this working by using the method posted here Can nginx location blocks match a URL query string?

error_page 419 = @searchquery;

if ($args ~ "(^|&)hjh=7484" ) {
    return 419;
}

location @searchquery {
    proxy_pass $my_app;
}

Now the problem is any request with that argument, not only to search page will be processed. What would be the best way to make this restricted only to /search location ?

Raju Divakaran
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