rewrite to www EXCEPT for one directory

[Valentin V. Bartenev]

On Friday 07 September 2012 00:32:48 eddy at sdf.org wrote:
[...]
> I suggest to use $scheme like in:
> 
> rewrite ^(.*) $scheme://www.example.org/$1 permanent;
> 
> to keep the https connection (if a client wants to use it). otherwise your
> server drops the https connection and the client will connect over http.
> i.e.: if you want to use /wp-admin only over https with
> "define('FORCE_SSL_ADMIN', true);" in /wp-config.php, it will safe you a
> lot of annoying behavior...
> 

"listen 80;" means that this server section doesn't handle https connections.

And please do not use ugly rewrites instead of simple "return", where it's 
possible.

 wbr, Valentin V. Bartenev

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