Redirecting Digitalocean Wordpress site from non www to www?

Hi @neverdevelopment,

Depending on your WebSerivce you have two possible ways. First, you need to find if you are using Apache or Nginx. To do that, SSH to your Droplet and type in

netstat -tulpen | grep 80

Depending on what you see, you’ll have to perform different actions.

If you are using Apache2, you’ll need to go to your parent directory(where your website is loading from) and in your .htaccess file add :

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

If you are using Nginx. Go to /etc/nginx/sites-available and open the .conf file of your website. In there you need to add the following:

HTTP Solution From the documentation, “the right way is to define a separate server for example.org”:

server {
    listen       80;
    server_name  example.com;
    return       301 http://www.example.com$request_uri;
}

server {
    listen       80;
    server_name  www.example.com;
    ...
}

HTTPS Solution

server {
        listen 80;
        server_name www.domain.example;
        # $scheme will get the http protocol
        # and 301 is best practice for tablet, phone, desktop and seo
        return 301 $scheme://domain.example$request_uri;
}

server {
        listen 80;
        server_name domain.example;
        # here goes the rest of your config file
        # example
        location / {

            rewrite ^/cp/login?$ /cp/login.php last;
            # etc etc...

        }
}