How to make a dynamic redirect in nginx?

Question

Nginx

Hey!
Please tell me how to set up a dynamic redirect in nginx, so that what comes after some given url redirects to the main page. Tried like this -

location = /products(.*)$ { rewrite ^ http://site.ru/ permanent; }

- Does not help. Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

At least - a tilde instead of an equal sign, if you want to set the location with a regular expression

Answer 2

And better not use premanent(301) but redirect(302). If you have to change it later, there will be problems (clients will have cached 301s).
Also, when this change
to
See wiki.nginx.org/Pitfalls