By Alvin Alexander. Last updated: July 3, 2016
As a quick Nginx configuration example, if you need to configure a 301 Redirect with Nginx, and you also need to account for trailing slash characters in the original URL, I can confirm that this solution works for me:
rewrite /foo/bar/baz/?$ /foo/bar/baz.html permanent;
This Nginx configuration line will forward both of these URIs to the new URI:
/foo/bar/baz # no trailing slash /foo/bar/baz/ # with trailing slash
This works because the ? character means “zero or more instances of the preceding character,” and in this case the character before the ? is the / character.
I don’t know if this is important for a lot of systems, but I just converted a couple of old Drupal websites to use plain, static HTML files, and I needed to make sure I handled the redirect for some URLs that may or may not have had trailing slash characters.
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