Best way to redirect mysite.com to forums.mysite.com/landing?

[45thj5ej]

Not sure if proper category, but I need some help/support with this.

So, I self-host my forums on a VPS. I have my own domain name. I use an A record already so that forums.mysite.com points to my VPS’ IP. The forums page I want to use is forums.mysite.com/landing so I would like when people visit mysite.com it will just take them to the forums page I want automatically as quick as possible.

What is the best approach here? Wasn’t sure if I should do some DNS stuff with A or CNAME records, somehow maybe move forums.mysite.com/landing to just somehow be mysite.com now, etc.

[Lilly (Lillian)]

(Superseded) Redirect additional domain(s) to your Discourse instance

2024-04-09 @pfaffman edited this to say that this is no longer necessary, as the current NGINX config in the standard install redirects everything to https://HOSTNAME. You can test this by entering your IP address and see that it gets redirected. If you want multiple domains pointed to your server, you probably want them to have valid https certificates. To do that, follow instructions at Set up Let’s Encrypt with multiple domains / redirects. So you want to redirect domain(s) to yo…

[45thj5ej]

@techAPJ

In this tutorial we’ll show how to redirect www.example.com and example.com to talk.example.com

@Lilly Would it be possible to move the forums entirely to the base domain name? So that mysite.com would just be the forums?

@techAPJ

Update the A record for the domain(s) you want to redirect to original domain.

Also, I already have an A record that points to my VPS’ IP, where the forums are hosted. So do I now forward my base domain’s URL to that IP or keep it as forums.mysite.com? I’d mostly likely just CNAME my mysite.com to the A record of forums.mysite.com, right?

Is this correctly done? I want to forward mysite.me to forums.mysite.me/landing

  after_web_config:
    - replace:
        filename: /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
        from: /sendfile.+on;/
        to: |
          server_names_hash_bucket_size 64;
          sendfile on;
    - file:
        path: /etc/nginx/conf.d/forumsredirect.conf
        contents: |
          server {
            listen 80;
            server_name mysite.me;
            return 301 $scheme://forums.mysite.me/landing$request_uri;
          }