Remove www and .html with with a single redirect

Question

I'm having an issue where if a user types:

www.myurl.com/page.html

they are redirected first to

myurl.com/page.html

and then to

myurl.com/page

This is because I have the following in my conf file

    #remove www from url
    if ($host ~* ^www\.(.*)) {
        set $remove_www $1; 
        rewrite ^(.*)$ http://$remove_www$1 permanent;
    }

    location  /{

            # removes .html extension
            if ($request_uri ~ \.html($|\?)) {
                    rewrite ^(.+)\.html$ $1 permanent;
            }
    }

My question:

Is there a way to eliminate the the first redirect so that if a users types www.mysite.com/page.html they are redirected straight to mysite.com/page

Is your question not answered by [Everything you ever wanted to know about mod_rewrite rules but were afraid to ask](http://serverfault.com/questions/214512)? (Hint: nginx rewrite rules are very similar to Apache rewrite rules - It's just regular expressions: `$1` is the first thing in parentheses, `$2` is the second, `$3` the third... :-) — voretaq7, Feb 19 '13 at 20:44

mgorven · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-19T20:58:40.037

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You need your www. rule to strip the .html if present. You also shouldn't need the if statement in the second rewrite:

#remove www from url
if ($host ~* ^www\.(.*)) {
    set $remove_www $1; 
    rewrite ^(.*?)(\.html)?$ http://$remove_www$1 permanent;
}

location / {
    rewrite ^(.+)\.html$ $1 permanent;
}

edited Feb 19 '13 at 20:58

answered Feb 19 '13 at 20:45

mgorven

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...see and I was going to suggest a disgusting regex match to do the work -- this is somewhat cleaner. – voretaq7 Feb 19 '13 at 20:47
@mgorven the .html rewrite will not accept something like this: `www.myulr.com/page.html?foo=bar` – jwerre Feb 19 '13 at 20:54
Also, if I add www. to the url it append "?" if I remove it will I still be able to use query strings? – jwerre Feb 19 '13 at 20:58
@jwerre Remove the `?$args` (I was getting confused with `try_files`). – mgorven Feb 19 '13 at 20:58
will do. What is $args btw? – jwerre Feb 19 '13 at 21:00
@jwerre First match also needs to be non-greedy (see my edit). `$args` are the query string parameters. – mgorven Feb 19 '13 at 21:01

Remove www and .html with with a single redirect

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