diff --git a/nginx-config/othes b/nginx-config/othes
index 69a5855e38e968091b2d0d1ec01e85c1d0025f52..7d36d3966ca9e19cb7c01bb397334b5f3134ba99 100644
--- a/nginx-config/othes
+++ b/nginx-config/othes
@@ -1,31 +1,14 @@
-# Default server configuration
-#
-# server {
-#   listen 80;
-#   server_name netbox02.univie.ac.at;
-#   server_name gitlab02.phaidra.org;
-#   return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
-# }
+# othes.univie.ac.at uses redis database nr. 12 to redirect to utheses-prod
 
 server {
   listen 80;
   listen 443 ssl http2;
-# server_name netbox02.univie.ac.at;
-  server_name gitlab02.phaidra.org;
+  server_name othes.univie.ac.at;
 
   root /var/www/html/netbox02;
   index index.html index.htm;
 
-# location / {
-#   try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
-# }
-
-# location /hello {
-#   content_by_lua '
-#     ngx.header["Content-Type"] = "text/html"
-#     ngx.say("hello world")
-#   ';
-# }
+  access_log /var/log/nginx/othesredirect.log;
 
   location / {
     content_by_lua_block {
@@ -40,20 +23,15 @@ local connect = function()
         return ngx.exit(ngx.ERROR)
     end
 
-    red:select(10) -- we use db10
-    -- red:set('URXN10', 'BLA10')
+    red:select(12) -- we use db12
  
     return red
 end
 
       local meth= ngx.req.get_method()
-      -- ngx.header["Content-Type"] = "text/html"
-      -- ngx.say("<h1>hello world</h1>")
-      -- ngx.say("<p>meth=[", meth, "]</p>");
 
       if meth == "GET" or meth == "HEAD" then
         local uri= ngx.var.uri
-        -- ngx.say("<p>uri=[", uri, "]</p>");
         local id, sep, rest
         for x1, x2, x3 in string.gmatch(uri, "/(%d+)(/?)(.*)") do
           id=   x1
@@ -61,51 +39,35 @@ end
           rest= x3
           break
         end
-        -- ngx.say("<p>id=[", id, "] sep=[", sep, "] rest=[", rest, "]</p>");
 
         if id and tonumber(id) > 0 then
-          -- ngx.say("<p>lookup redirect for id=[", id, "]</p>");
           local red= connect()
           local newurl, err= red:get(id)
 
           if type(newurl) == "string" then
-            -- ngx.say("<p>newurl=[", newurl, "]</p>")
-            ngx.redirect(newurl)
+            ngx.redirect(newurl, 301)
           else
             ngx.header["Content-Type"] = "text/html"
-            ngx.say("<p>no redirection found (unkown id)</p>")
+            ngx.say("<p>no redirection found (unknown id)</p>")
           end
         else
-          ngx.header["Content-Type"] = "text/html"
-          ngx.say("<p>no redirection found (unknown url)</p>")
-        end
-
---[[
-        local args, err= ngx.req.get_uri_args()
-        for key, val in pairs(args) do
-           if type(val) == "table" then
-             ngx.say("<p>", key, ": ", table.concat(val, ", "), "</p>")
-           else
-             ngx.say("<p>", key, ": ", val, "</p>")
-           end
+          ngx.redirect("https://utheses.univie.ac.at/", 301)
         end
---]]
 
       else
-        ngx.header["Content-Type"] = "text/html"
-        ngx.say("<h1>sorry, can't help you</h1>")
+        ngx.redirect("https://utheses.univie.ac.at/", 301)
       end
 
     }
   }
 
   ssl on;
-# ssl_certificate     /etc/ssl/certs/fullchain_netbox.univie.ac.at.crt;
-# ssl_certificate_key /etc/ssl/private/netbox.univie.ac.at.key;
-  ssl_certificate     /etc/ssl/certs/fullchain_gitlab.phaidra.org.crt;
-  ssl_certificate_key /etc/ssl/private/gitlab.phaidra.org.key;
+# ssl_certificate     /etc/ssl/certs/othes.univie.ac.at_fullchain.crt;
+# ssl_certificate_key /etc/ssl/private/othes.univie.ac.at.key;
+  ssl_certificate     /etc/ssl/certs/fullchain_netbox.univie.ac.at.crt;
+  ssl_certificate_key /etc/ssl/private/netbox.univie.ac.at.key;
   ssl_session_timeout 5m;
-	ssl_protocols       TLSv1.2 TLSv1.1 TLSv1; # Dropping SSLv3, ref: POODLE
+  ssl_protocols       TLSv1.2 TLSv1.1 TLSv1; # Dropping SSLv3, ref: POODLE
   ssl_ciphers         'EECDH+AESGCM:EDH+AESGCM:AES256+EECDH:AES256+EDH';
   ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
   ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:10m;