I am in the situation to give our marketing department the opportunity to maintain their redirects by their own. Until now, they passed the information to the IT department and we maintained it for them in nginx.conf.

Some of these guys are quite familiar with redirections in IIS or even in apache but it is no option to give them direct access to the nginx configuration.

I see, that there is no nginx support for .htaccess files which I could give access to and I would also prefer not to grant write access to an conf-file that nginx includes. I expect, that our marketing will break our nginx setup within hours...

Is there a secure possibility without giving them access our the heart of our load balancer?