Ngnix redirect?

Question

Nginx

How to make a redirect from site.com/old_url to site.com/new_url I understood
from the manual that this is the case, but it does not work

rewrite ^/new_url http://$server_name/old_url$1 permanent;

Answer 1

Need the opposite.
rewrite ^/old_url http://$server_name/new_url$1 permanent;