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Discussion in 'Domains, DNS, Email & SSL Certificates' started by quicksalad, Jul 1, 2015.

  1. quicksalad

    quicksalad Member

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    I'd read threads here related to what I wanted to happen and unable to find the right settings, hopefully this will help not just me but for all future Centminmod who wanted to redirect non www to www.

    Here's where I came from none to www | Centmin Mod Community


    I get the same issue, I was also redirected to Nginx test page :(

    Here's my config:
    Code:
    # redirect from non-www to www
    # uncomment, save file and restart Nginx to enable
    #server {
    #            listen   80;
    #            server_name mysite.com;
    #            return 301 $scheme://www.mysite.com$request_uri;
    #       }
    
    server {
      server_name mysite.com www.mysite.com;
    
    # ngx_pagespeed & ngx_pagespeed handler
    #include /usr/local/nginx/conf/pagespeed.conf;
    #include /usr/local/nginx/conf/pagespeedhandler.conf;
    #include /usr/local/nginx/conf/pagespeedstatslog.conf;
    Any advise how to do it?
     
  2. quicksalad

    quicksalad Member

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    here's what I did:

    Code:
    # redirect from non-www to www
    # uncomment, save file and restart Nginx to enable
    server {
                listen   80;
                server_name mysite.com;
                return 301 $scheme://www.mysite.com$request_uri;
           }
    
    server {
       server_name www.mysite.com;
    
    # ngx_pagespeed & ngx_pagespeed handler
    #include /usr/local/nginx/conf/pagespeed.conf;
    #include /usr/local/nginx/conf/pagespeedhandler.conf;
    #include /usr/local/nginx/conf/pagespeedstatslog.conf;
    Am I doing it right?
     
  3. eva2000

    eva2000 Administrator Staff Member

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    yup that's correct :)
     
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    quicksalad Member

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    @eva2000 does it affects site loading? due to redirect?
     
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    eva2000 Administrator Staff Member

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    nope :)
     
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    I noticed minimize redirects drop to red on gtmetrix after I enable it? why is that?
     
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    eva2000 Administrator Staff Member

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