Nginx redirect if cookie present
- by Joseph Silvashy
I've seen some limited resources on checking for cookies with Nginx, but I couldn't really find the answer I was looking for, hopefully some of you Nginx masters can give me a hand.
Essentially I have a vhost that I'd like to redirect to a different domain unless the user has a cookie, here is what I've created:
server {
listen 80;
server_name rerecipe.com;
if ($http_cookie ~* "ngl_beta_pass" ) {
# set $beta off;
root /home/deploy/apps/rerecipe/current/public;
passenger_enabled on;
rack_env production;
break;
}
rewrite ^/(.*) http://beta.rerecipe.com/$1 permanent;
}
But it doesn't seem to work, I get the error:
[emerg]: "root" directive is not allowed here in /opt/nginx/conf/nginx.conf:45
I'm not sure how to proceed here, any ideas guys?
