Redirect WWW to NON-WWW - Ghost 1 Click Install

Posted on November 12, 2017

So have followed this guide: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-the-digitalocean-ghost-one-click-application-for-ubuntu-16-04

All works fine apart from when I try and visit the site with www in the URL.

All the browser says is “Safari cannot open the page because it could not establish a secure connection to the server”

What else do I need to do to redirect WWW to NON-WWW?

I have created an A Record for the WWW in the Domains section of the droplet.

I have also tried editing MYDOMAIN.co.uk-ssl.conf and MYDOMAIN.co.uk.conf adding the www url to the server_name entry and getting the same error.

Please help :(

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lampreyOne

November 13, 2017

It sounds like your certificate does not include the www version of the domain, so your browser is rejecting the connection before the server gets a chance to issue a redirect.

If you’re using letsencrpyt, leave your non-www domain as server name, add the www domain under ServerAlias, then rerun letsencrypt and check off both domains, so it will create a certificate with both.

somebody314

March 12, 2019

Worked like a charm! Just make sure you have to cd to ghost directory (/var/www/ghost) to be able to run cli commands, also you cannot run this as root.