Forwarding from https:// to https://www

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Hi.

I’m new to discourse! I’m hosting discourse on my Ubuntu 24.04 server :slight_smile:

But I need help with domain forwarding…

If I go to this site: https:// mysite - It doesn’t work…

If I go to this site: https://www. mysite it works fine…

So now to my question. Can I forward all traffic from https:// to https://www

I hope someone can help me out, in a noob friendly way :stuck_out_tongue:

Regards

Thomas

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Others have suggested https://www.forcewww.com/ in similar questions

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Hi.

Thanks :slight_smile:

Are this safe??? Point my server to a random place… ???

Are there other ways to do it?

Where is the nginx configuration located?

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Is there a DNS entry for mysite or just for www.mysite?

Does your web server show any log entries for the mysite hits with an indication of why it failed?

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Hi @MikeNolan

IPV4 - mysite.dk
IPv4 - www.mysite.dk

IPV6 - mysite.dk
IPv6 - www.mysite.dk

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What web engine are you using, it needs to know the equivalence as well.

I assume ping mysite and ping www.mysite both work.

What happens if you try to curl to the mysite URL locally?

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Hi

Thanks for the reply…

I’m not sure what web engine I have used.

I just have followed this guide: discourse/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md at main · discourse/discourse · GitHub

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Communiteq is a Discourse partner and I also trust the people who recommend it here at Meta

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forcewww.com is the most noob-friendly way. I use it, and I have been a full-time consultant on Discourse since 2016.

The harder, and slightly more elegant way, is to add a second domain as described in Set up Let’s Encrypt with multiple domains / redirects.

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I can say forcewww.com is reasonably safe. it is built and operated by Communiteq (communiteq is a trusted discourse hosting provider).

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Is there some reason why this redirention can’t be done using Nginx?

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It already does the redirects. The issue is that it doesn’t have a cert for the other site so if you visit the non www sir you get a certificate error

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I see. But… that is just matter of so many times mentioned two -d flags when getting sertificates :thinking:

What the heck I don’t understand now… I have to re-read this topic.

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That’s not a simple matter for a novice.

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Quite few thing is easy and clear for novices [1]

  1. it is guided almost every 101-helps, though, including Lets Encrypt. But it looks like Discourse is considered different than every other sites, I fell in that rabbit hole ↩︎

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Hi,

Thanks for all the replies. I did go with this solution: https://www.forcewww.com/

It seems to work fine :slight_smile:

Thanks.

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