.htaccess not working for Ghost Droplet

As @jsamuel mentioned, the Ghost One-Click droplet uses the Nginx web server which doesn’t use .htaccess files. In order to direct non-www requests to www, you can update Nginx’s configuration. One the Ghost droplet, you can find that in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/ghost You’ll want to add a new server block that returns a 301 redirect from the non-www domain to the www one. It would look like this:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name example.com;

    return 301 http://www.example.com$request_uri;
}

server {
    listen 80 default_server;
    listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;

    server_name www.example.com;

    client_max_body_size 10G;

    location / {
        proxy_pass http://localhost:2368;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
        proxy_buffering off;
    }
}

Sorry @asb it worked as you had said. Sorry for so many questions and thank you for your help!

Hey @asb thanks for the explanation. I add your snippet so my file looks like this,

server {
    listen 80 default_server;
    listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;

    server_name mydomain.com; # Replace with your domain

    return 301 http://www.mydomain.com$request_uri;



    root /usr/share/nginx/html;
    index index.html index.htm;

    client_max_body_size 10G;

    location / {
        proxy_pass http://localhost:2368;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
        proxy_buffering off;
    }
}

and the redirect occurs, but I get an error

This webpage has a redirect loop

ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS

Any reason why I have that issue based on my file code above?

In terms of the DNS setup, I have an “A” file directing the IP to my domain without www. and a “CNAME” file directing my domain to www.

Not sure if that helps