rewrite to www EXCEPT for one directory

[Valentin V. Bartenev]

On Thursday 06 September 2012 22:22:07 Ian Evans wrote:
> I have the following in my nginx.conf to redirect to www. to deal with
> Google duplicate issues.
> 
> server {
> server_name example.com
> listen 80;
> location / {
> rewrite ^(.*) http://www.example.com$1 permanent;
> }
> }
> 
> However, WordPress, which I'm installing in /blogs, is strongly
> suggesting that we drop the www, at least for WordPress.
> 
> Is there a way to change the above config so it will do the "add www"
> redirect EXCEPT for when the location is /blogs or below? (it's a
> multisite install so there'll be /blogs/blog1, /blogs/blog2, etc)
> 

  server {
      listen 80;
      server_name example.com;

      location / {
          return 301 http://www.example.com$request_uri;
      }

      location /blogs {
          # configuration for WordPress
      }
  }


 wbr, Valentin V. Bartenev

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