Nginx no-www to www and www to no-www

Question

I am using nginx on Rackspace cloud following a tutorial and having searched the net and so far can\'t get this sorted.

I want www.mysite.com to go to mysite.com as

Answer 1

You need two server blocks.

Put these into your config file eg /etc/nginx/sites-available/sitename

Let's say you decide to have http://example.com as the main address to use.

Your config file should look like this:

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

        # this is the main server block
        # insert ALL other config or settings in this server block
}

The first server block will hold the instructions to redirect any requests with the 'www' prefix. It listens to requests for the URL with 'www' prefix and redirects.

It does nothing else.

The second server block will hold your main address — the URL you want to use. All other settings go here like root, index, location, etc. Check the default file for these other settings you can include in the server block.

The server needs two DNS A records.

Name: @ IPAddress: your-ip-address (for the example.com URL)

Name: www IPAddress: your-ip-address (for the www.example.com URL)

For ipv6 create the pair of AAAA records using your-ipv6-address.