Nginx Issue

[a_5mith]

So, my sites live, and I've transferred everything over, site is available on http://35hz.co.uk

However the old address was http://www.35hz.co.uk/forum/

So I need to redirect both forum to root, and www to non www. I've got this in my server block, but it's saying page not found.

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name www.35hz.co.uk;
    rewrite     ^ $scheme://35hz.co.uk$request_uri? permanent;
}

But I'm pretty lost. Nothing I change works.

If anyone could do me a solid and help me work this out, I'd be eternally grateful.

[psychobunny]

Paging resident nginx expert, @julian

[a_5mith]

@psychobunny I'm hoping going into DNS in Digital OCean and creating another record for www.35hz.co.uk will help. The funny thing is, my iPad is still showing my old website.

[psychobunny]

This might help you

[julian]

I don't know enough about nginx internals to be confident enough to write a single server block to do both of those, but try this:

server {
        listen 80;
        server_name www.35hz.co.uk;

        return 302      https://35hz.co.uk$request_uri;
}

And possible for the /forum redirect...

location ^~ /forum(.*) {
    return 302 $scheme://$http_host/$1$is_args$query_string;
}

YMMV?

When it starts working, switch those 302s to 301s. Then Google will know to transfer requests from one to the other.

[a_5mith]

@julian I think the issue could be further back than this, as www.35hz.co.uk gets server not found, not the nginx landing page...

I've created a record in Digital OCean for it, but it's made no difference, so not sure where to go from here. I can't think of anything else at this point.

35hz.co.uk exists and works, I've got that bit, but how on earth can www.35hz.co.uk not exist.

Ahh, no wait, I might have it. Just a moment. I've set up a CNAME record for www in 35hz.co.uk.

That according to google, should work.

EDIT: Do you ever get that feeling, when you've worked so long on something, and it finally works, you're not sure if you're imaginging it. I'm having one of those moments.

The /forum/ redirect didn't work, but, quite frankly. I'm not even remotely bothered about it.