.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!

I believe the Ghost server image uses only Nginx, not Nginx in front of Apache, so you can’t use Apache’s .htaccess files. You’d have to make your changes in the Nginx configuration.