Redirecting Www To Non-www Domains On Nginx And Apache

Posted By Weston Ganger

Redirecting a www address to a non-www address or vice versa is important for SEO. Heres how to set it up on Nginx and Apache in the most efficient way.

# Nginx - Redirect www to non-www
server {
  server_name www.westonganger.com;
  return 301 $scheme://westonganger.com$request_uri;
}

# Apache - Redirect www to non-www
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>
  ServerName www.westonganger.com
  <IfModule mod_alias.c>
    Redirect permanent / http://westonganger.com/
  </IfModule>
</VirtualHost>

If you need to do non-www to www then just change the above code to suit the need.