Nginx rewrite non-www-prefixed domain to www-prefixed domain

Question

I see the Nginx HttpRewriteModule documentation has an example to rewrite a www-prefixed domain to a non-www-prefixed domain:

if ($host ~* www\\.(.*)) {
  set $h         


        

Answer 1

The nginx documentation cautions against the use of if for rewriting. Please see the link here: http://wiki.nginx.org/Pitfalls#Server_Name