I’ve recently installed Discourse to a Ubuntu Focal Fossa VPS and it works great, however I’m struggling to overcome some URL peculiarities. The following is the behaviour I am seeing (in Safari). I have A NAME records for @, WWW and * created in with my registrar. example.com [displays Welcome to nginx! page] FAIL www.example.com [redirects to https://example.com] PASS http://example.com [displays Welcome to nginx! page] FAIL http://www.example.com [redirects to https://example.com and works fine] PASS https://example.com [works as expected, doesn't redirect] PASS https://www.example.com [errors with 'This Connection is Not Private' browser message] FAIL I would like my installation to be at the root/apex so I entered example.com at setup. Any advice graciously received!

Are you running an external nginx in the Discourse server? Why? Discourse already ships with a pre-configured nginx that will handle that provided you let it listen to the 80 and 443 ports.

Hi @Falco, thank you for your reply. Not to my knowledge no, the image from the VPS provider is just called “Focal Fossa Clean OS” which I assume means it contains no third party tools. This is just straight out of the box using the “30 minute” install route published. sudo su wget -qO- https://get.docker.com/ | sh git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse_docker.git /var/discourse cd /var/discourse ./discourse-setup

Ohh that is a really weird behavior then! Can you share your app.yml here (remove the sensitive data like passwords). The file lives at /var/discourse/containers/app.yml. Also the docker ps -a output.

Sure thing, thank you. Would my domain having a weird TLD cause any issues? (it’s a .community). ## this is the all-in-one, standalone Discourse Docker container template ## ## After making changes to this file, you MUST rebuild ## /var/discourse/launcher rebuild app ## ## BE *VERY* CAREFUL WHEN EDITING! ## YAML FILES ARE SUPER SUPER SENSITIVE TO MISTAKES IN WHITESPACE OR ALIGNMENT! ## visit http://www.yamllint.com/ to validate this file as needed templates: - "templates/postgres.template.yml" - "templates/redis.template.yml" - "templates/web.template.yml" - "templates/web.ratelimited.template.yml" ## Uncomment these two lines if you wish to add Lets Encrypt (https) - "templates/web.ssl.template.yml" - "templates/web.letsencrypt.ssl.template.yml" ## which TCP/IP ports should this container expose? ## If you want Discourse to share a port with another webserver like Apache or nginx, ## see https://meta.discourse.org/t/17247 for details expose: - "80:80" # http - "443:443" # https params: db_default_text_search_config: "pg_catalog.english" ## Set db_shared_buffers to a max of 25% of the total memory. ## will be set automatically by bootstrap based on detected RAM, or you can override db_shared_buffers: "768MB" ## can improve sorting performance, but adds memory usage per-connection #db_work_mem: "40MB" ## Which Git revision should this container use? (default: tests-passed) #version: tests-passed env: LANG: en_US.UTF-8 # DISCOURSE_DEFAULT_LOCALE: en ## How many concurrent web requests are supported? Depends on memory and CPU cores. ## will be set automatically by bootstrap based on detected CPUs, or you can override UNICORN_WORKERS: 8 ## TODO: The domain name this Discourse instance will respond to ## Required. Discourse will not work with a bare IP number. DISCOURSE_HOSTNAME: example.com ## Uncomment if you want the container to be started with the same ## hostname (-h option) as specified above (default "$hostname-$config") #DOCKER_USE_HOSTNAME: true ## TODO: List of comma delimited emails that will be made admin and developer ## on initial signup example 'user1@example.com,user2@example.com' DISCOURSE_DEVELOPER_EMAILS: ‘email@gmail.com' ## TODO: The SMTP mail server used to validate new accounts and send notifications # SMTP ADDRESS, username, and password are required # WARNING the char '#' in SMTP password can cause problems! DISCOURSE_SMTP_ADDRESS: smtp.postmarkapp.com DISCOURSE_SMTP_PORT: 587 DISCOURSE_SMTP_USER_NAME: username DISCOURSE_SMTP_PASSWORD: “password” #DISCOURSE_SMTP_ENABLE_START_TLS: true # (optional, default true) #DISCOURSE_SMTP_DOMAIN: discourse.example.com # (required by some providers) ## If you added the Lets Encrypt template, uncomment below to get a free SSL certificate LETSENCRYPT_ACCOUNT_EMAIL: email@gmail.com ## The http or https CDN address for this Discourse instance (configured to pull) ## see https://meta.discourse.org/t/14857 for details #DISCOURSE_CDN_URL: https://discourse-cdn.example.com ## The maxmind geolocation IP address key for IP address lookup ## see https://meta.discourse.org/t/-/137387/23 for details #DISCOURSE_MAXMIND_LICENSE_KEY: 1234567890123456 ## The Docker container is stateless; all data is stored in /shared volumes: - volume: host: /var/discourse/shared/standalone guest: /shared - volume: host: /var/discourse/shared/standalone/log/var-log guest: /var/log ## Plugins go here ## see https://meta.discourse.org/t/19157 for details hooks: after_code: - exec: cd: $home/plugins cmd: - git clone https://github.com/discourse/docker_manager.git ## Any custom commands to run after building run: - exec: echo "Beginning of custom commands" ## If you want to set the 'From' email address for your first registration, uncomment and change: ## After getting the first signup email, re-comment the line. It only needs to run once. #- exec: rails r "SiteSetting.notification_email='info@unconfigured.discourse.org'" - exec: echo "End of custom commands" and CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES 465fbf1c3fb8 local_discourse/app "/sbin/boot" 47 minutes ago Up 46 minutes 0.0.0.0:80->80/tcp, 0.0.0.0:443->443/tcp app

Maybe this distro your provider give you comes with pre-installed nginx ? What does curl -I localhost prints?

[image] Falco: curl -I localhost HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Server : nginx/1.18.0 Date : Mon, 25 Jan 2021 20:18:00 GMT Content-Type : text/html Content-Length : 169 Connection : keep-alive Location : https://example.com Does this mean it was already installed? (sorry I’m a n00b at this)

That is the exact expect response when it’s working. So, is http://example.com still showing nginx welcome page?

https://example.com is working just fine, but http://example.com (HTTP) goes off to the Welcome to nginx! page :sob:

Can you share the actual domain?

[image] ajmuir: example.com Sooo, that doesn’t give me the nginx welcome page at all. Can you try it on another device like your phone? curl -I example.com -L HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Server: nginx/1.18.0 Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2021 20:35:21 GMT Content-Type: text/html Content-Length: 169 Connection: keep-alive Location: https://example.com/ HTTP/2 200 server: nginx date: Mon, 25 Jan 2021 20:35:22 GMT content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8 vary: Accept-Encoding x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN x-xss-protection: 1; mode=block x-content-type-options: nosniff x-download-options: noopen x-permitted-cross-domain-policies: none referrer-policy: strict-origin-when-cross-origin x-discourse-route: finish_installation/index cache-control: no-cache, no-store content-security-policy: base-uri 'none'; object-src 'none'; script-src https://example.com/logs/ https://example.com/sidekiq/ https://example.com/mini-profiler-resources/ https://example.com/assets/ https://example.com/brotli_asset/ https://example.com/extra-locales/ https://example.com/highlight-js/ https://example.com/javascripts/ https://example.com/plugins/ https://example.com/theme-javascripts/ https://example.com/svg-sprite/; worker-src 'self' https://example.com/assets/ https://example.com/brotli_asset/ https://example.com/javascripts/ https://example.com/plugins/ x-request-id: 8755d4fa-387f-4509-8709-b6075f274d09 x-runtime: 0.026020 strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000

HTTPS works perfectly, but HTTP URL displays NGINX welcome page and doesn't redirect

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featherless (Jeff Verkoeyen) September 18, 2024, 3:40am 14

fwiw I just ran into this same issue today with Ubuntu 22.04. Clearing Safari cache and refreshing also fixed the issue.

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