By mrvd
I set up Lets encrypt using Certbot, everything works fine when I view my website via “website.com”, however when I use “www.website.com” I get a welcome to nginx landing page.
I’ve attempted to fix this by following a similar question posted on the community: [https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/set-up-django-nginx-and-ubuntu-18-04-welcome-to-nginx-landing-page-displays-when-www-prefix-is-loaded-with-domain-works-fine-without] without any success
/etc/nginx/sites-available/default:
server {
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server;
# SSL configuration
#
# listen 443 ssl default_server;
# listen [::]:443 ssl default_server;
#
# Note: You should disable gzip for SSL traffic.
# See: https://bugs.debian.org/773332
#
# Read up on ssl_ciphers to ensure a secure configuration.
# See: https://bugs.debian.org/765782
#
# Self signed certs generated by the ssl-cert package
# Don't use them in a production server!
#
# include snippets/snakeoil.conf;
root /var/www/html;
# Add index.php to the list if you are using PHP
index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;
server_name _;
location / {
# First attempt to serve request as file, then
# as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
}
# pass PHP scripts to FastCGI server
#
#location ~ \.php$ {
# include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
#
# # With php-fpm (or other unix sockets):
# fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
# # With php-cgi (or other tcp sockets):
# fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
#}
# deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
# concurs with nginx's one
#
#location ~ /\.ht {
# deny all;
#}
}
# Virtual Host configuration for example.com
#
# You can move that to a different file under sites-available/ and symlink that
# to sites-enabled/ to enable it.
#
#server {
# listen 80;
# listen [::]:80;
#
# server_name example.com;
#
# root /var/www/example.com;
# index index.html;
#
# location / {
# try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
# }
#}
/etc/nginx/sites-available/website:
server {
server_name website.com www.website.com;
location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
location /static/ {
root /home/…/website;
}
location / {
include proxy_params;
proxy_pass http://unix:/run/gunicorn.sock;
}
listen 443 ssl; # managed by Certbot
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/website.com/fullchain.pem; # managed by Certbot
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/website.com/privkey.pem; # managed by Certbot
include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf; # managed by Certbot
ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams.pem; # managed by Certbot
}
server {
if ($host = www.website.com) {
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
} # managed by Certbot
if ($host = website.com) {
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
} # managed by Certbot
listen 80;
server_name server_name website.com www.website.com;
return 404; # managed by Certbot
}
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Accepted Answer
Hi there @mrvd,
Your Nginx configuration looks all correct. What I could suggest is checking if your www version has a CNAME DNS record pointing to your main domain.
You can use this DNS tool to check that here:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tools/dns
Let me know how it goes! Regards, Bobby
Update On visiting my website with the ‘www’ prefix it redirect to https://www.website.com with the error: “This site can’t be reached… unexpectedly closed the connection.”
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