How to write a main url rewrite in nginx

Question

I want to change the url: www.example.com/index.html?id=roy to: www.example.com/roy

I have tried this solution, but it is for the url: www.example.com/users/roy

Answer 1

Please give this a try. This rewrites /(.+) to /index.html?id=$1.

rewrite ^/(.+)$ /index.html?id=$1 last;

Answer 2

i solved the problem: try_files $uri/ $uri /index.html?$query_string

Answer 3

try this, (use of infinite names)

location / {
  rewrite ^ http://www.example.com/users/$arg_id permanent;
}