Thank you for the reply; If we did this: server { listen 80; -listen 443 ssl; server_name example.com ***IP Address***; return 301 https://www.example.com$request_uri; } Wouldn't this stop https://example.com from re-directing to https://www.example.com then ? Posted at Nginx Forum: https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,267700,267735#msg-267735