non-www to www forwarding with nginx/apache

[Strator]

I would like to forward all instances of example.com to WWW.example.com with nginx/apache. Can someone let me know what the best practice is to get this done?

I came across this page here which seems to describe what is needed:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7947030/nginx-no-www-to-www-and-www-to-no-www

...but I don't want to edit every instance of /usr/local/directadmin/data/users/user/nginx.conf manually, plus, I'd like to make sure that the change survives future updates by Custombuild.

Thanks in advance!

 

[smtalk]

Just use .htaccess for redirection

 

[Strator]

Just use .htaccess for redirection

Thanks for the reply - is there any way to automate this so it happen automatically for new users/domains?

 

[zEitEr]

You may update apache templates in order to achieve the desired.

http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=2

Just separate virtual hosts for www.domain.com and domain.com and use redirect there, or just add mod_rewrite rules into a virtual host section.

 

[Strator]

Alex, are you sure this will also work for the nginx/apache setup? I thought that was actually the reason why my original setup (which worked fine in an apache-only environment) broke in the first place.

 

[zEitEr]

Yes, I am.