Nginx redirect www to non www domain
I've been playing around with Nginx web server over the past few days, its a great light weight web server, ideal for VPS's or smaller Amazon EC2 instances where resources are not as abundant.
One thing I like about nginx so far is the configuration, while I haven't had to do anything overly complex with it yet, it does seam to be quite flexible.
Here's a quick example of redirecting a www domain to the non www version:
server { listen 80; server_name www.example.com; rewrite ^ http://example.com/ permanent; }
Note that's just one way of doing it, by creating a new virtual server for the non-www hostname and redirecting all requests. You can also do this from within your main server declaration, eg:
server { listen 80 root /web/root/; if ($host != 'example.com') { rewrite ^ http://example.com/ permanent; } }
I like the first method better, but this just goes to show how flexible the configuration is for nginx
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