How do i configure nginx to redirect to a url for robots.txt & sitemap.xml

Question

I am running nginx 0.6.32 as a proxy front-end for couchdb. I have my robots.txt in the database, reachable as http://www.example.com/prod/_design/mydesign/robots.txt. I also have my sitemap.xml which is dynamically generated, on a similar url.

I have tried the following config:

server {   listen 80;   server_name example.com;   location / {   if ($request_method = DELETE) {     return 444;   }   if ($request_uri ~* "^/robots.txt") {     rewrite ^/robots.txt http://www.example.com/prod/_design/mydesign/robots.txt permanent;   }    proxy-pass http://localhost:5984;   proxy_redirect off;   proxy_set_header Host $host;   proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;   proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; } 

This appears to work as a redirect but is there a simpler way?

Answer 1

Or you can put it simply in its own location -

location /robots.txt {     alias /Directory-containing-robots-file/robots.txt; }