
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
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:
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!