Require 'www' for https://example.com

[Igor Sysoev]

On Mar 23, 2013, at 2:44 , openletter wrote:

> I am setting up a server that will be for a B2B business, and I want the
> whole site to be served as https://www.example.com/
> 
> I have gotten a certificate and https://www.example.com runs just fine, but
> I can't figure out how to require https://www.example.com when a user tries
> to go to https://example.com.
> 
> In reading through the nginx.org site, it seems like rewrites and if
> statements are discouraged. I did figure out how to require
> http://www.example.com/ by using the following in my server block file:
> 
> server {
>           listen [::]:80;
>           server_name example.com *.example.com;
>           return 301 $scheme://www.example.com$request_uri;
> }
> 
> But doing something similar for 443 doesn't seem to work.
> 
> Can someone please help me out or point to a good page on setting up for
> this?

You have to got a certificate also for "example.com" or certificate for two
names "www.example.com" and "example.com".


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