Redirect (almost) all subdomains to www?

Server NGINX
1

I have two “server” directives.

One has:

server_name www.example.com;

The other has:

server_name admin.example.com;

Both do what they should. However, right now any subdomain (besides
“admin.example.com”) is the exact same as www. I would prefer if things
were redirected so that a user cannot use “randomstuff.example.com” to
see the website. I also don’t want them to be able to use it without a
www (e.g. example.com)

Basically all requests should be directed to have the www subdomain
(except for admin.example.com)

What’s the best way to do this?

2

What’s the best way to do this?

http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/converting_rewrite_rules.html
http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/server_names.html

Should explain how to do that - in short you make a default “catch all”
server block and redirect to www.yourdomain.com .

rr

3

On 28 Set 2010 14h15 WEST, [email protected] wrote:

Both do what they should. However, right now any subdomain (besides
“admin.example.com”) is the exact same as www. I would prefer if
things were redirected so that a user cannot use
“randomstuff.example.com” to see the website. I also don’t want them
to be able to use it without a www (e.g. example.com)

Basically all requests should be directed to have the www subdomain
(except for admin.example.com)

If I understand correctly your question, something like this should to
the trick:

server {
listen [::]:80 default_server;
server_name www.example.com;
}

You can remove the default_server flag if you can guarantee that
www.example.com is the first one that appears inside your http
block.

— appa