Nginx no-www to www and www to no-www

Question

I am using nginx on Rackspace cloud following a tutorial and having searched the net and so far can\'t get this sorted.

I want www.mysite.com to go to mysite.com as

Answer 1

I combined the best of all the simple answers, without hard-coded domains.

301 permanent redirect from non-www to www (HTTP or HTTPS):

server {
    if ($host !~ ^www\.) {
        rewrite ^ $scheme://www.$host$request_uri permanent;
    }

    # Regular location configs...
}

If you prefer non-HTTPS, non-www to HTTPS, www redirect at the same time:

server {
    listen 80;

    if ($host !~ ^www\.) {
        rewrite ^ https://www.$host$request_uri permanent;
    }

    rewrite ^ https://$host$request_uri permanent;
}