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learning is one of the reasons of starting this server :) TIL how to redirect www. to the main secured endpoint (www.digitalocean.com)

submitted 1 year ago by majorswitcher@lemmyfly.org to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://lemmyfly.org/post/2382

thanks to @Hopfgeist@feddit.de for noticing www.lemmyfly.org was not secured and not pointing to the lemmy instance.

Checking the lemmy ansible files I saw your nginx configuration file is located in /etc/nginx/sites-available/[sitename].conf

To add a redirect for your www.[sitename, add: (lemmyfly.org example)
server {
  server_name www.lemmyfly.org;
  return 301 $scheme://lemmyfly.org$request_uri;
}
check your config with sudo nginx -t

restart nginx: sudo systemctl restart nginx

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[–] ptz@dubvee.org 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You're nicer than I am. If someone's still typing "www" into the URL bar, I make certain assumptions about them with my site's Nginx config:

server {
  server_name www.dubvee.org;
  return 301 https://aarp.org;
}

[–] bustrpoindextr@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Brutal 🤣

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not as brutal as calling customer service for something and having their hold announcements read their website address to you on a loop:

"For faster service, please visit our website at double-you double-you double-you dot blah blah dot com. Again, that's double-you double-you double-you dot blah blah dot com."

And if you go to that address, it redirects you without the "www". :facepalm:

Worst part is that if I could have solved the problem through the website, I would have. Calling support is like a last measure of resolution.

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