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.