Hi all,

Here's a handy config snippet to permanently redirect to a canonical server
name, generically (ie. without needing to repeat yourself in every config).


/etc/nginx/canonical_hostname:
if ( $host != $server_name ) {
rewrite ^(.*)$ $scheme://$server_name$1 permanent;
}


/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/example.com:
server {
listen 10.0.0.1:80;
server_name www.example.com example.com;
include canonical_hostname;
...


Because the included block in canonical_hostname is totally generic, you can
include it in whichever server block you wish. It automagically chooses the
correct scheme, host (based on the first element of server_name) and path...

Enjoy!

- Jeff

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