Canonical Rewrite Rule For Nginx

Need to redirect from acme.com to www.acme.com with nginx? No problem … just add a virtual host declaration for the non-www that redirects like this:

server {
  listen 80;
  server_name acme.com;
  rewrite ^/(.*) http://www.acme.com/$1 permanent;
}

server {

listen 80;

server_name acme.com;

rewrite ^/(.*) http://www.acme.com/$1 permanent;

}

or if you want to add to an existing vhost:

if ( $host != 'www.domain.com' ) {
   rewrite ^/(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 permanent;
}

if ( $host != 'www.domain.com' ) {

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

}

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Sandeep Pattanaik says:

January 16, 2014 at 2:34 am

Like .htaccess on Apache server. What kind of file will use to config?

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1. Lee Blakely says:
  
  January 16, 2014 at 5:29 am
  
  The virtual host should be placed in the nginx.config files. Exactly which file depends on how nginx is setup on your server. For example you might have a file like /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/mydomain.conf where your primary domain is defined. This would be a good place to add the rewrite rules.
  
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  1. Sandeep Pattanaik says:
    
    January 16, 2014 at 8:45 am
    
    Thanks @rpenguin:disqus
    
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