Redirecting WordPress Permalinks in Nginx

I know, it’s been really a long time since I last wrote an article in this blog. But trust me, I’ve done a lot of improvements at the back end. The blog is now in a new server, with new backup infrastructure, and most importantly served by Nginx.

I was just casually looking at 404 errors in my Awstats and saw a bunch of these:

romantika.name-404-errors

I’ve changed the permalink structure for this site ages ago, and I did not notice this. I have no excuse for this mistake.

To avoid more 404 I made a simple fix in my Nginx configuration:

rewrite "/\d{4}/\d{2}/\d{2}/(.*)" /$1 permanent;

So now if visitors try to access https://blog.adyromantika.com/2007/05/02/wordpress-plugin-random-posts-widget/ they will be redirected to the new permalink https://blog.adyromantika.com/wordpress-plugin-random-posts-widget/

That’s it. I love Nginx for its simplicity and speed. I should thank my friends Welly and Englebert for promoting Nginx to me.

I love challenges using Regex so if you have any questions do leave a comment. Can’t guarantee in what year I will be able to respond though!

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