Nginx Remove WWW And Respond To Both

Question

I have the following nginx configuration fragment:

server {
   listen 80;

   server_name mydomain.io;

   root /srv/www/domains/mydomain.io;

   index index         


        

Answer 1

I believe it's better to add two seperate server blocks to avoid unnecessary checking by the if block. I also use the $scheme variable so that HTTPS requests will not be redirected to their insecure counterparts.

server {
    listen 80;

    server_name www.mydomain.io;

    rewrite ^ $scheme://mydomain.io$uri permanent;
}

server {
    listen 80;

    server_name mydomain.io;

    # your normal server block definitions here
}