The return directive is the simpler of the two general‑purpose directives and for that reason we recommend using it instead of rewrite when possible (more later about the why and when). Let’s review what the directives do and how they differ. The two directives for general‑purpose NGINX rewrite are return and rewrite, and the try_files directive is a handy way to direct requests to application servers.

Comparing the return, rewrite, and try_files Directives

We’ll assume you’re familiar with the HTTP response codes and with regular expressions (NGINX and NGINX Plus use the Perl syntax). Note: To learn how to convert Apache HTTP server rewrite rules to NGINX rewrite rules, see our companion blog post, Converting Apache Rewrite Rules to NGINX Rewrite Rules. The try_files directive is often used for this purpose. To control the flow of processing within NGINX and NGINX Plus, for example to forward requests to an application server when content needs to be generated dynamically.Example use cases are when your website’s domain name has changed, when you want clients to use a canonical URL format (either with or without the To inform clients that the resource they’re requesting now resides at a different location.Rewrite rules change part or all of the URL in a client request, usually for one of two purposes: In this blog post, we discuss how to create NGINX rewrite rules (the same methods work for both NGINX Plus and the open source NGINX software).

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