Redirect www to non www

Question

How do I redirect http://www.example.com to http://example.com?

I am using LEMP, Nginx, Wordpress.

Qn 1: To which file should I add the below code to?

server { server_name www.example.com; return 301 $scheme://example.com$request_uri; }

I have a few files in mind (I followed your tutorials)

/etc/nginx/sites-available/wordpress
/etc/nginx/sites-available/default

Qn 2: If I add the above code, must I still do the DNS part on CNAME (www and @)? Or can I skip this step?

FMCB · Answer

I think you need to add www and @ CName record to make the domain catch www,

also, I believe you need to have each vhost like the following code:

server {
server_name www.domain.com ;
rewrite ^(.*) http://domain.com$1 permanent;
}

server {
server_name domain.com ;
#The rest of your configuration goes here#
}

for exp. look here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7947030/nginx-no-www-to-www-and-www-to-no-www

f1dc16eda41571f12bf5d14705a5ae · Answer

Thanks for your reply! I got it to work by just by adding the CName record and without the server{…} portion.

But what I really want to know is by adding the server{…} portion, do I still need to do the CName record? Because I actually want to do it through this method - i.e. to redirect through server {…} portion.

If the answer is yes, I will know that such a method actually exists. and my next step would be to figure how to go about just adding the server{…} portion alone. Now I’m like a lost sheep. Because I have added CName record and it already works so i cant tell if the server {…} is actually working.

thanks in advance!

f1dc16eda41571f12bf5d14705a5ae · Answer

anyone knows the answer to this? thanks

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