Ngnix Redirect To WWW

Updated: 19 April, 2018 seen 1,200
domain name redirect, Ngnix, Servers

You already probably know that search engines (Google) see www as a separate domain. If you are not using 301 redirects you might get penalized for duplicate content. Anyway - the topic of this article is not an SEO lesson, but a solution how to permanently redirect non www to www Ā 

Since I'm running on Ngnix, I'll share how to achieve this on Ngnix. Sorry Apache friends!

How To Redirect in Nginx all Domain Name Versions to https://www

Add a line to your server config:Ā 

sudo nano /opt/etc/nginx/sites-available/reinisfischer.com

paste

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

Restart Nginx

sudo /etc/init.d/nginx restart

Let me know how does it go!