SpinupWP Nginx Configs - Strip fbclid query string from url when page is linked to from Facebook

fbclid-nginx.conf

######################
# Consists of 2 parts 
######################

# Part 1 - first snippet (map) needs to go before the server block
# create a custom config file in /etc/nginx/sites-available/{DOMAIN}/before

# remove fbclid argument from the end of the url 
  map $request_uri $redirect_fbclid {
    "~^(.*?)([?&]fbclid=[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$"  $1;
  }

# Part 2 - second snippet (return 301) needs to go in the server block
# create a custom config file in /etc/nginx/sites-available/{DOMAIN}/server

# check if redirect map is active, do 301 to the page url
  if ( $redirect_fbclid ) {
    return 301 $redirect_fbclid;
  }

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• Read the code comments. The configuration consists of two new files.
• The code comments are tips only, you don't need to add them to the actual files.
• Change the file names and comments to whatever you want.

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