We had a "beta" site set up under http://beta.domain.com, while http://www.domain.com contained a launch page. We now got rid of the launch page and moved the site over to the actual domain. I set up a permanent redirect in nginx to deal with this, but it somehow is not redirecting properly.
server { server_name beta.domain.com; rewrite ^/(.*) http://www.domain.com/$1 permanent; } When I test it out using curl, it seems to work as expected.
$ curl -v beta.domain.com/page > GET /page HTTP/1.1 > User-Agent: curl/7.21.4 (universal-apple-darwin11.0) libcurl/7.21.4 OpenSSL/0.9.8r zlib/1.2.5 > Host: beta.domain.com > Accept: */* > < HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently < Server: nginx/1.2.1 < Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 20:37:03 GMT < Content-Type: text/html < Content-Length: 184 < Connection: keep-alive < Location: http://www.domain.com/page < <html> <head><title>301 Moved Permanently</title></head> <body bgcolor="white"> <center><h1>301 Moved Permanently</h1></center> <hr><center>nginx/1.2.1</center> </body> </html> However, when I go to http://beta.domain.com/page in Firefox, I get redirected to http://www.domain.com instead of http://www.domain.com/page. If I go directly to http://www.domain.com/page in Firefox, that works as expected.
I want to fix this with proper permanent redirect for SEO, but can't figure out the cause of this issue. We are using a Python/Django deployment running on Apache/ModWSGI, with nginx as the frontend server.
Thanks!
