Hi,

would anybody please tell me what I'm doing wrong here?

location ~* ^/(forum|forums|board)/? {
     rewrite ^/([^/]*)/*(.*) http://forum.my_domain.com/$2 permanent;
}

I'd like to make it redirect visitors from http://www.my_domain.com/forum (note: there's no trailing slash), http://www.my_domain.com/forum/, http://www.my_domain.com/forums (again, there's no trailing slash here), http://www.my_domain.com/forums/, http://www.my_domain.com/board (...yep) and http://www.my_domain.com/board/ to http://forum.my_domain.com/. Neither the path (except "forum"/"forums"/"board") nor the query (if there's one) should get cut off. It's working so far, but it also redirects visitors from ex. http://www.my_domain.com/forumfoobar/, which isn't what I want. :-(

Thanks in advance!