Reposting: im getting "503 Service Temporarily Unavailable nginx" when i do "www." on my website

Hi! I was having the same issue and i found this post through google. I have found a way to make it work but it’s not the correct one. I will give my way and hope someone can help us both fix it haha.

I am running a docker compose file in my raspberry pi to host my domain’s website + let’s encrypt certificates. The docker compose file has the budry/jwilder-nginx-proxy-arm, duch/letsencrypt-nginx-proxy-companion:stable and nginx images (the full compose file is from a spanish youtuber hosted in https://github.com/pablokbs/peladonerd/blob/master/raspi/7/docker-compose.yaml ).

What I did was run the compose, copy the /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf from the nginx_proxy container to the pi with the command docker cp containerid:/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf .

edit it with vim or nano and add the www.domain.com next to my domain.com in both server_name lines in the file and copy the file back to the container. Then enter into the container with the command docker exec -it containerid /bin/bash

and once inside the container I run the command nginx -s reload

Then i checked the www.domain.com and worked perfectly. The only problem now is that this change isn’t persistent and when I run the docker compose file again, the /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf gets rewritten and the www.domain.com isn’t next to the domain.com in the server_name line. Do you think how can i make docker nginx_proxy file not rewrite it? It might be the solution for the both of us hopefully.

Thanks and hope it works with you as well!

Hi there @Xunne,

It sounds like that your Nginx server block does not include your www. version, can you share the content of the config file here?

It is stored at:

/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/yourdomain.conf

If this is the case, you need to edit that file, add the www version of your site to the server_name list and then restart Nginx.

Let me know how it goes. Regards, Bobby