Hi there, I am trying to redirect all NGINX www paths to non-www. Does anybody know how to do it?
server {
root /var/www/mydomain.com/html;
index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;
server_name mydomain.com www.mydomain.com;
#Certbot stuff here...
}
server {
if ($host = www.mydomain.com) {
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
} # managed by Certbot
if ($host = mydomain.com) {
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
} # managed by Certbot
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
server_name mydomain.com www.mydomain.com;
return 404; # managed by Certbot
}
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I’m brand new to nginx and just ran into this problem myself and spent some hours trying to figure it out. My solution feels hacky and theres probably a better way to do this, but it got it working on my server.
In the first ‘server’ block, right below the server names I added a conditional for a redirect. Here’s what it would look like using your code.
server {
root /var/www/mydomain.com/html;
index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;
server_name mydomain.com www.mydomain.com;
if ($host = www.mydomain.com) {
return 301 https://mydomain.com$request_uri;
}
#Certbot stuff here...
}
If someone knows of or finds a better way to do this, please leave a comment.
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