Question
Redirecting www to nonwww version on ServerPilot
- Posted on November 3, 2016
- NginxUbuntu 16.04
Asked by saeeddarabi
Hi,
I am totally new to having my own server. So please bear with me if my questions are too simple for some of you.
I used ServerPilot to set everything up. Everything works great, but my www version doesn’t redirect to non www.
I have this code in my .htaccess file (which worked perfectly on shared hosting before - I assume because they were using Apache):
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example.com.se$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com.se/$1 [R=301,L]
Now, my research shows that serverpilot uses nginx and that the above code doesn’t work for nginx. But then I read a guide on serverpilot that says they use nginx along with apache and that the htaccess code should work. But it is not working currently.
So I am very confused. I would appreciate any help on how to achieve this.
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Thanks this just helped me now. I guess I was using the old code, non-nginx code and it never caused an issue until just an hour ago. :O
But it’s all up and running now that I used that code instead. It was redirecting to /srv/… over and over in the URL box
Hi,
What you’re doing as well as those rewrite rules look correct. ServerPilot configures Nginx as a reverse proxy in front of Apache so you still can use .htaccess files exactly as you’re doing.
Please check to make sure you’ve added those RewriteRule/RewriteCond lines to the very top of your .htaccess file. If you’ve added them below other stuff (for example, below the WordPress stuff), they won’t work reliably.