Help configuring a proxy that should also handle a specific redirect.

[aaronrudkin]

I want to set up a proxy host such that the following occurs:

1. https://sub.domain.com/ generally proxies https://sub.domain.com:port/, so https://sub.domain.com/page1 will proxy https://sub.domain.com:port/page1 and the end user will see https://sub.domain.com/page1 in their browser. This much is already working just fine.

2. The exact URL https://sub.domain.com/ should do a 300 redirect to https://sub.domain.com/landing/ (and thus to https://sub.domain.com:port/landing/) -- the user should see https://sub.domain.com/landing/ in their browser if they enter https://sub.domain.com/. Assume for the sake of argument that it's not possible for me to configure https://sub.domain.com:port/ to do this redirect and so I have to do it at the level of nginx proxy manager.

Is this possible? I thought it might be with Custom Locations but I can't seem to make it work without causing an error.

Thanks. Hope this was clear.

[aaronrudkin]

What I ended up doing:

Under "Advanced", using the following custom configuration:

location = / {
    return 301 https://sub.domain.com/landing/
}
    
location / {
   ... regular config continues here ...
}

This seems to work!