remove www from the url

[Jim Ohlstein]

On 2/17/11 9:44 AM, whiskybar wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I used to use the following trick to cut the initial www. from the
> address so that www.mysite.com would redirect to mysite.com:
>
> [code]
> server {
>      server_name mysite.com www.mysite.com;
>
>      if ($host ~* www\..*) {
>          rewrite ^(.*)$ $1 permanent;
>      }
> [/code]


Wrong way!

server {
     server_name mysite.com;
     ...
}

server {
     server_name www.myite.com;
     rewrite ^ http://mysite.com$request_uri? permanent;
}

>
> Well, this method no longer works. I do not know when it stopped working
> but I will get "The page isn't redirecting properly" in Firefox. It
> still puzzles me the documentation still implies this should work:
>
> [quote]"Note that if a redirect is relative (has no host part), then
> when redirecting Nginx uses the "Host" header if the header match name
> of server_name directive or the first name of server_name directive, if
> the header does not match or is absent. If no server_name is set, then
> the local hostname is used. If you want Nginx to always use the "Host"
> header, you can use a wildcard "*" server_name (but see the restrictions
> on doing so)"[/quote]
>
> Why is that and more importantly, what trick should I use to redirect
> www.mysite.com -->  mysite.com?
>
> Thank you!
>
> Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,176137,176137#msg-176137
>
>
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-- 
Jim Ohlstein