How to keep the old image urls when changing their paths?

Question

PHP

After restructuring the directory with images, their paths will change as follows:

Сейчас:
/5aefce2c8ec8f389ea4ec77ec1b90a34.jpg
/45149b36b87bdabdf64ce789c105e441.jpg
/a077e9957f2265798d9cacc0133c6268.jpg

Будет:
/5a/5aefce2c8ec8f389ea4ec77ec1b90a34.jpg
/45/45149b36b87bdabdf64ce789c105e441.jpg
/a0/a077e9957f2265798d9cacc0133c6268.jpg

That is, each file will be moved to a subfolder named by the first two characters of its name.
It is required to keep the availability of images at the same url.

Answer 1

nginx-rewrite returning a permanent redirect and cutting out all the old links won't work in your case?

Answer 2

You can make a regular expression in Nginx and the paths will be saved. Just need more data to make it up. Rather, you need more data so that the compiled regular season does not break something else) You need to look at the structure of the site and the virtual host.
https://nginx.ru/ru/docs/http/ngx_http_rewrite_mod...