# Forwarding from https:// to https://www
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/forwarding-from-https-to-https-www/326416
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** hosting
**Created:** [September 13, 2024, 7:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forwarding-from-https-to-https-www/326416 "2024-09-13T19:02:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 17
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### Author:  [@Taxick](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Taxick)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2024, 7:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forwarding-from-https-to-https-www/326416/1 "2024-09-13T19:02:07Z")
Hi.
I’m new to discourse! I’m hosting discourse on my Ubuntu 24.04 server 🙂
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](https://www). mysite** it works fine..
So now to my question. Can I forward all traffic from https:// to [https://www](https://www)
I hope someone can help me out, in a noob friendly way 😛
Regards
Thomas
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2024, 7:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forwarding-from-https-to-https-www/326416/2 "2024-09-13T19:11:51Z")
Others have suggested [https://www.forcewww.com/](https://www.forcewww.com/) in similar questions
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### Author:  [@Taxick](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Taxick)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2024, 7:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forwarding-from-https-to-https-www/326416/3 "2024-09-13T19:40:46Z")
Hi.
Thanks 🙂
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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### Author:  [@MikeNolan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MikeNolan)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2024, 7:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forwarding-from-https-to-https-www/326416/4 "2024-09-13T19:58:35Z")
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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### Author:  [@Taxick](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Taxick)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2024, 8:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forwarding-from-https-to-https-www/326416/5 "2024-09-13T20:00:25Z")
Hi @MikeNolan
IPV4 - mysite.dk
IPv4 - www.mysite.dk
IPV6 - mysite.dk
IPv6 - www.mysite.dk
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### Author:  [@MikeNolan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MikeNolan)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2024, 8:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forwarding-from-https-to-https-www/326416/6 "2024-09-13T20:01:15Z")
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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### Author:  [@Taxick](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Taxick)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2024, 8:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forwarding-from-https-to-https-www/326416/7 "2024-09-13T20:02:14Z")
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](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md)
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2024, 8:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forwarding-from-https-to-https-www/326416/8 "2024-09-13T20:18:20Z")
> [@Taxick](#):
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> Are this safe??? Point my server to a random place… ???
Communiteq is a [Discourse partner](https://discourse.org/partners) and I also trust the people who recommend it here at Meta
> [@DNS Settings for Digital Ocean Droplet - Root Domain?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dns-settings-for-digital-ocean-droplet-root-domain/218903/10):
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> The easy solution is [forcewww.com](http://forcewww.com). A harder solution is [Setting up Let’s Encrypt with Multiple Domains](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-up-let-s-encrypt-with-multiple-domains/56685).
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2024, 8:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forwarding-from-https-to-https-www/326416/9 "2024-09-13T20:34:28Z")
`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](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-up-let-s-encrypt-with-multiple-domains-redirects/56685).
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### Author:  [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2024, 6:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forwarding-from-https-to-https-www/326416/10 "2024-09-14T06:26:16Z")
> [@Taxick](#):
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> Are this safe??? Point my server to a random place… ???
I can say [forcewww.com](http://forcewww.com) is reasonably safe. it is built and operated by Communiteq (communiteq is a trusted discourse hosting provider).
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### Author:  [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2024, 8:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forwarding-from-https-to-https-www/326416/11 "2024-09-14T08:27:57Z")
Is there some reason why this redirention can’t be done using Nginx?
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2024, 10:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forwarding-from-https-to-https-www/326416/12 "2024-09-14T10:05:54Z")
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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### Author:  [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2024, 10:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forwarding-from-https-to-https-www/326416/13 "2024-09-14T10:13:12Z")
I see. But… that is just matter of so many times mentioned two -d flags when getting sertificates 🤔
What the heck I don’t understand now… I have to re-read this topic.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2024, 10:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forwarding-from-https-to-https-www/326416/14 "2024-09-14T10:15:53Z")
> [@Jagster](#):
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> that is just matter of so many times mentioned two -d flags
That’s not a simple matter for a novice.
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### Author:  [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2024, 10:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forwarding-from-https-to-https-www/326416/15 "2024-09-14T10:19:27Z")
Quite few thing is easy and clear for novices \[1\]
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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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### Author:  [@Taxick](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Taxick)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2024, 11:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forwarding-from-https-to-https-www/326416/16 "2024-09-14T11:00:03Z")
> [@Moin](#):
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> [https://www.forcewww.com/](https://www.forcewww.com/)
Hi,
Thanks for all the replies. I did go with this solution: [https://www.forcewww.com/](https://www.forcewww.com/)
It seems to work fine 🙂
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2024, 11:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forwarding-from-https-to-https-www/326416/17 "2024-10-14T11:00:22Z")
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