Trying to do the opposite of www.domain.com -> domain.com

[Igor Sysoev]

On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 11:52:07PM -0700, mike wrote:

> yeah, i took your suggestion and this is what i've been using, with
> the added addition of redirecting and keeping the URI
> 
>         server {
>                 listen 80;
>                 server_name www.michaelshadle.com;
>                 rewrite ^/(.*) http://michaelshadle.com/$1 permanent;
>         }
> 
>         server {
>                 listen 80;
>                 server_name michaelshadle.com;
>                 index index.php;
>                 root /htdocs/michaelshadle.com/;
>                 ... etc ...
>         }

Just for info, here is some configuration that returns 404 for any invalid
hostname if you do not want to associate your site with these names:

     server {
         listen 80 default;
         server_name _;
         return  404;
     }

     server {
         listen 80;
         server_name www.michaelshadle.com
                     67.228.73.162           # your IP address
                     "";                     # request without host header

         #redirect stuff;
     }

     server {
         listen 80;
         server_name michaelshadle.com;

         #main site
     }


> On 8/31/08, Igor Sysoev <is at rambler-co.ru> wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 11:59:39PM +0000, David wrote:
> >
> > > Following this example from the docs:
> > >
> > > #rewrites http://www.mydomain.nl/foo => http://mydomain.nl/foo
> > > if ($host ~* www\.(.*)) {
> > >   set $host_without_www $1;
> > >   rewrite ^(.*)$ http://$host_without_www$1 permanent; # $1 contains '/foo', not
> > > 'www.mydomain.com/foo'
> > > }
> > >
> > > Would the opposite of that be:
> > >
> > > #rewrites http://mydomain.nl/foo => http://www.mydomain.nl/foo
> > > if ($host ~* !^(.*)\.mydomain\.nl$) {
> > >   rewrite ^(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.nl/$1 permanent;
> > > }
> > >
> > > Does that make sense ?
> > >
> > > Is $host_without_www a reserved variable ? and is the inverse $host_with_www ?
> >
> > No, $host_without_www is not reserved name.
> > Try the following:
> >
> > - if ($host ~* !^(.*)\.mydomain\.nl$) {
> > + if ($host !~* ^(.*)\.mydomain\.nl$) {
> >
> > BTW, it's better to use something like this instead of "if":
> >
> > server {
> >     server_name  www.maydomain.nl;
> >     ...
> > }
> >
> > server {
> >     server_name  maydomain.nl;
> >     rewrite ^(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.nl/$1 permanent;
> > }
> >
> >
> > --
> > Igor Sysoev
> > http://sysoev.ru/en/
> >
> >

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