I configured the Nginx web server for my website and I am using pre-render configuration in that.
I have checked the official configuration (https://prerender.io) as well as follow the below links:
https://gist.github.com/thoop/8165802
but in some cases, my URL has been changed '?' to '%3F'.
Example:
original URL: https://www.example.com/resource/tech/business-wire?resource_id=7458
Changed URL: https://www.example.com/resource/tech/business-wire%3Fresource_id=7458
Nginx configuration:
location / {
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' "*";
try_files $uri $uri/ @prerender;
add_header Link "<$scheme://$http_host$request_uri>; rel=\"canonical\"";
}
location @prerender {
proxy_set_header X-Prerender-Token C9S8QChyoX1AbskxiBNW;
set $prerender 0;
if ($http_user_agent ~* "googlebot|bingbot|yandex|baiduspider|twitterbot|facebookexternalhit|rogerbot|linkedinbot|embedly|quora link preview|showyoubot|outbrain|pinterest\/0\.|pinterestbot|slackbot|vkShare|W3C_Validator|whatsapp|flipboard|SkypeUriPreview|redditbot|SiteCheckerBotCrawler|dotbot|roberbot|ubersuggest|SEMrushBot") {
set $prerender 1;
}
if ($args ~ "_escaped_fragment_") {
set $prerender 1;
}
if ($http_user_agent ~ "Prerender") {
set $prerender 0;
}
if ($uri ~* "\.(js|css|xml|less|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|pdf|doc|txt|ico|rss|zip|mp3|rar|exe|wmv|doc|avi|ppt|mpg|mpeg|tif|wav|mov|psd|ai|xls|mp4|m4a|swf|dat|dmg|iso|flv|m4v|torrent|ttf|woff|svg|eot)") {
set $prerender 0;
}
#resolve using Google's DNS server to force DNS resolution and prevent caching of IPs
resolver 8.8.8.8;
if ($prerender = 1) {
#setting prerender as a variable forces DNS resolution since nginx caches IPs and doesn't play well with load balancing
set $prerender "service.prerender.io";
rewrite .* /https://$host$request_uri? break;
proxy_pass http://$prerender;
}
if ($prerender = 0) {
rewrite .* /index.html break;
}
}