Have you ever wanted to split test multiple pages on your website? You could use a WordPress plugin called Simple Page Tester but you are limited to testing two urls at a time. After some searching, I came across a simple way to split test multiple URLs using Nginx split client module.
First, add this section to the top of your Nginx Config:
split_clients "${remote_addr}AAA" $destination {
20% https://example.com/page-1/;
30% https://example.com/page-2/;
40% https://example.com/page-3/;
10% https://example.com/page-4/;
}
Next, add a rewrite rule to your server section:
server {
rewrite ^/rewrite-url-goes-here/$ $destination redirect;
}
Finally, restart Nginx to see the changes:
sudo service nginx restart
Hope this is helpful. It can also be used to redirect Nginx to random URLs. Let me know if you have any questions below.
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