Hello all, I have a droplet setup with my domain example.com, my webserver is nginx, I have setup my server blocks in order to have my site in example.com and my blog with blog.example.com, everything was working well, I’am using a CNAME for WWW. and another CNAME for BLOG.
I noticed that I have duplicated content at google ayes because I serve the same site in my www domain and my non-www. I have read some tutorials to redirect all my non-www traffic to my www site.
When I made the changes, my surprise was that now my blog is served in example.com and in blog.example.com, I don’t know what im doing wrong,
My configs in sites-available are:
Main Site:
server{
listen 80;
listen [::]:80 default_server;
root /var/www/main/html;
index index.html index.php index.htm;
server_name example.com;
return 301 $scheme://www.example.com$request_uri;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ = 404;
}
}
Blog:
server {
listen 80;
server_name blog.example.com;
location / {
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:2368;
}
}
Pretty basic configs that worked before the changes, have to say my blog is running under Ghost, I mantain the blog alive with “supervisord” in the past have used “forever” installed vía npm, I don’t think this is the problem but I think every detail helps.
My “main site” right now is only a “.html” file, as you can see in the config, the priority to serve files is “.html”
Thank you in advance to you all!
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Here is how I would 301 Perm Redirect with Nginx - non-www to www and also added in your blog block.
# Redirect non-www to www
#
server {
server_name example.com;
listen 80;
return 301 http://www.example.com$request_uri;
}
server {
listen 80;
server_name www.example.com;
location / {
root /var/www/example.com/public_html/;
index index.html index.htm;
}
# Blog
#
server {
listen 80;
server_name blog.example.com;
location / {
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:2368;
}
}
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