Origin URL Rewriting

If the URLs of origin pull requests do not match the origin server URLs, origin pull fails. You can rewrite origin URLs to those that match the origin server, improving the origin pull hit ratio.

Scenarios

Assume that you have changed the storage path of a video file on the origin server from /test/ to /video/. Users may fail to obtain the correct file if they use the original access URL. In this case, you can use this function to rewrite URLs for CDN to pull the file, so users can obtain the correct file without changing the access URL.

Precautions

You can add up to 20 URL rewrite rules.
This function is not available if you have signed URLs using method B or C1.
Domain names whose service type is whole site acceleration do not support this function.
Origin URLs cannot be rewritten for domain names with special configurations.

Procedure

Log in to Huawei Cloud console. Choose Service List > Content Delivery & Edge Computing > Content Delivery Network.
The CDN console is displayed.
In the navigation pane, choose Domains.
In the domain list, click the target domain name or click Configure in the Operation column.
Click the Origin Settings tab.

In the Origin URL Rewrite area, click Edit.

Figure 1 Rewriting origin URLs
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**Table 1** Parameter description
Parameter	Description
Match Mode	All files: Rewrites URLs of pulling all files under this domain name from the origin server.
	Path: Rewrites URLs of pulling files under a specific path from the origin server. Prefix match is used. For example, if the original URI is /test, all files whose prefix is /test (such as /test, /test01, and /test**) will be matched.
	Wildcard: Wildcard characters () are supported. Files are matched by full path. The original URI must be a specific path, for example, /test//.mp4*.
	Full path: Rewrites the entire URL. The original URI must be a specific path, for example, /test/01/abc.mp4.
Original URI	URI to be rewritten. A URI starts with a slash (/) and does not contain http://, https://, or the domain name. A URI contains up to 512 characters. Wildcards () are supported, for example, /test//.mp4. When Match Mode* is Path or Full path, no parameters can be specified. When Match Mode is Wildcard and a slash (/) is entered, the root directory is matched.
Target URI	URI after rewrite. A URI starts with a slash (/) and does not contain http://, https://, or the domain name. A URI contains up to 256 characters. When Match Mode is set to Wildcard, the nth wildcard () field can be substituted by $n, where n = 1, 2, 3.... Assume that the source URI is /test//.mp4* and the target URI is /newtest/$1/$2.mp4. When a user requests /test/11/22.mp4, $1 captures 11 and $2 captures 22, and the actual URI for origin pull is /newtest/11/22.mp4. Other match modes do not support $n.
Priority	Priority of a URL rewrite rule. The priority of a rule is mandatory and must be unique. The rule with the highest priority will be used for matching first. The priority is an integer ranging from 1 to 100. A greater number indicates a higher priority.