Rewrite directive in Nginx - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to rewrite all requests to /home.

Nginx

rewrite [1] /home;

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A/$

B/home$

C/index.html

D^/.*$

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using a pattern that does not start with ^ or end with $

Using a literal string instead of a regex pattern

The rewrite directive uses a regular expression to match the request URI. ^/.*$ matches any URI starting with a slash.

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medium

Complete the code to redirect requests from /old to /new permanently.

Nginx

rewrite ^/old[1] /new permanent;

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A$

B.*

C/

D+

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using .* which matches anything after /old

Forgetting the $ to anchor the pattern

The pattern ^/old$ matches exactly the URI /old for rewriting.

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hard

Fix the error in the rewrite directive to capture the path after /blog/ and redirect to /news/.

Nginx

rewrite ^/blog/[1] /news/$1 permanent;

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A[a-z]+

B(.*)

C*

D+

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using * or + without parentheses which does not create a capture group

Using character classes like [a-z]+ which limits matching

The capture group (.*) captures any characters after /blog/ to use in the replacement.

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hard

Fill both blanks to rewrite requests ending with .php to .html internally.

Nginx

rewrite [1] [2] last;

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A^(.*)\.php$

B\1.html

C\1.php

D^(.*)\.html$

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Not escaping the dot in .php

Using wrong replacement string without capture group

The pattern ^(.*)\.php$ matches URIs ending with .php and captures the part before it. The replacement \1.html rewrites to the same path but with .html extension.

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hard

Fill all three blanks to rewrite URLs with query parameters to a clean URL format.

Nginx

rewrite ^/product/[1]/details\?id=[2]$ /item/[3] last;

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A([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)

B([0-9]+)

C$2

D$1

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Not escaping the question mark in the pattern

Mixing up $1 and $2 in the replacement

The first capture group ([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+) captures the product name. The second ([0-9]+) captures the id query parameter. The replacement uses $2 to insert the id in the clean URL.