How to Redirect From or to WWW

Many constructions are possible when it gets to the base URL. Some shop owners prefer a domain name starting with www, others prefer without.

There are some restrictions when choosing your base URL.

If you use the wwwizer servers, which are sometimes used when your domain is not hosted at Hypernode and thus the DNS can’t be automagically changed in case of up or downgrades, your domain will always redirect to www.

For Service Panel customers only: when your domain is hosted at Hypernode, simply link it to your Hypernode through the Service Panel

More info can be found on our page about setting your DNS.

Redirect From Apex to WWW

When hypernode-managed-vhosts enabled

To redirect all traffic to www you have to create both a vhost for the Apex and for the www. For the non-www vhost you can create the vhost as type wwwizer. This will redirect all traffic to the www. version of that vhost. This can be achieved by running: hypernode-manage-vhosts example.com --type wwwizer.

| servername      | type     | default_server | https | force_https | varnish | ssl_config   |
| example.com     | wwwizer  | False          | False | False       | True    | intermediate |
| www.example.com | magento2 | False          | False | False       | False   | intermediate |

Without hypernode-manage-vhosts enabled (old legacy nginx-config)

You can redirect all traffic to www with the following Nginx snippet:

if ($http_host ~* "^example.com$") {
    rewrite ^ https://www.$http_host$request_uri;
}

Save this snippet in /data/web/nginx/server.rewrites.

Redirect From WWW to Apex

To redirect all traffic from www to the apex domain use the following Nginx snippet:

if ($http_host ~ ^www\.(?<domain>.+)$ ) {
    return 301 https://$domain$request_uri;
}

Save this snippet in /data/web/nginx/server.rewrites or in case you are using Varnish public.rewrites.

Redirect When Using Varnish

When you are using Varnish, the redirect will be cached, causing a redirect loop.

To prevent this, you can use the public prefix, which is included before Varnish and thus will not be cached.

Save your file as /data/web/nginx/public.rewrites