nginx redirect to www.domain

Question

I want to redirect the site ALWAYS to www.site.com. However, I am not sure as to how to get the WWW to always show up in front should say someone type in the domain without the www.

EDIT:

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

server {
    listen       80;
    server_name  www.site.com;
    #rewrite ^(.*) https://www.site.com$1 permanent;
    root /home/site/public_html;

        listen       443 ssl;

If I type in site.com it goes to https://www.site.com = SUCCESS

If I type in site.com/index.php it goes to http://www.site.com = NO SSL

Ideas?

score 27 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 11 '21 at 13:33

27

It's better to use return instead of rewrite, because it's faster.

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

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name     www.example.com;
    [...]
}

This way, we also send the client a proper status code, so that he asks the right domain in the next request.

edited Mar 11 '21 at 13:33

Pekz0r

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answered Apr 24 '13 at 04:09

moestly

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Gave you an upvote, but thought I'd note that `rewrite permanent` sends a 301, too. – ceejayoz May 11 '13 at 23:10
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Shouldn't `server` have the closing tag `}` ? – Pedro Lobito Aug 21 '20 at 22:04

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 24 '13 at 05:01

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You're doing it the hard way. Here's the easy way.

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

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name  www.example.com;
    #The rest of your configuration goes here#
}

edited Apr 24 '13 at 05:01

moestly

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answered Apr 23 '13 at 21:20

ceejayoz

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