I have read major tutorials and questions on how to 301 redirect the ip to my main domain but everything seems irrelevant - either I couldnt locate the relevant lines to be changed or the versions of ubuntu are different. Any help here is appreciated?
Create a default server block if you haven't got one already with
server {
listen 80 default_server;
return 301 http://abc.com/;
}
If you already have a default server block, all you have to add is the return line.
This will redirect any requests that do not match a configured virtual host (server block in nginx)
Thanks @UKn0Me
I tried editing this "sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/default" location - but then website stopped loading.
Error dispalyed in chrome was "Website redirecting too many times"
You've likely put the return line into the server block for your domain, where server_name abc.com; would be. If you're using the provided server block for your site, you'll want to create a new one, as outlined above.
I have these settings :
server_name XX.XX.XX.XX (IP of the Server)
And I have put the 301 line in the server block where it is as follows:
server {
listen 80 defaultserver;
listen [::]:80 defaultserver;
return 301 http://abc.com/;
....
}
I think the server_name should not be the IP but my actual domain name (abc.com) is it?
That would be correct, you would want something like this;
server { # The default server block
# By default, requests will go here if they don't
# match another server block, redrecting them.
listen 80 default_server;
return 301 http://abc.com/;
}
server { # Your site's server block
# Requests to your domain will reach
# this server block, and will not be redirected.
listen 80;
server_name abc.com;
# Your site's configuration...
}