Problem in installing Let's Encrypt SSL for www and non-www

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Similar situation here. I installed Discourse on example.com and had a CNAME DNS record for www.example.com.

Now I went to https://check-your-website.server-daten.de and got a bad rating, because the SSL certificate was not valid for www.example.com and also http://www.example.com was forwarding to https://example.com.

Steps I took:

  • Replace CNAME record for www.example.com by A and AAAA records.
  • Add www.example.com as an additional domain to app.yml following
    Redirect single/multiple domain(s) to your Discourse instance
      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/discourse_redirect_1.conf
      contents: |
        server {
          listen 80;
          server_name www.example.com;
          return 301 $scheme://example.com$request_uri;
        }
  • Adjust SSL following Setting up Let’s Encrypt with Multiple Domains
    after_ssl:
  - replace:
      filename: "/etc/runit/1.d/letsencrypt"
      from: /-k 4096 -w \/var\/www\/discourse\/public/
      to: |
        -d www.example.com -d example.com -k 4096 -w /var/www/discourse/public

  - replace:
      filename: "/etc/runit/1.d/letsencrypt"
      from: /-k 4096 --force -w \/var\/www\/discourse\/public/
      to: |
        -d www.example.com -d example.com -k 4096 --force -w /var/www/discourse/public
  - replace:
      filename: "/etc/nginx/conf.d/discourse.conf"
      from: /return 301 https.+/
      to: |
        return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
  - replace:
      filename: "/etc/nginx/conf.d/discourse.conf"
      from: /gzip on;[^\}]+\}/m
      to: |
        gzip on;
        add_header Strict-Transport-Security 'max-age=31536000';
  • ./launcher rebuild app

Now, the rating for the site has improved, but one issue remains:

Wrong redirect http ⇒ http

Somewhere there’s 301 redirect
http://www.example.com ⇒ http://example.com.
I guess it should be
http://www.example.com ⇒ https://www.example.com ⇒ https://example.com

Any idea how to achieve this?

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