First Website

So now I can say my website is on.. even though it just literally has nothing but a printing hello

I got this garhve.com domain on namesilo for $9.95 per year, it’s really cheap! I always want a domain that is .com suffix.

Now, the web is https, this is a bit difficult for me.

Due to personal interest, I didn’t choose frame to base my website. I use Nginx but I don’t familiar with it. making it shows my content is not that difficult even that I don’t know much fancy state, but I stucked on SSL.

In order to use https instead of http, I choosed let’s encrypt, which is good for me and it’s free. However, I can only getting my non-www domain working. when it comes to www domain, it still http.

I found solutions all about using return to returning https, but it won’t work

server {
    server_name www.garhve.com;
	return 301 https://www.garhve.com$request_uri
}

This would return me a 404 error…

After searching and searching, I found where i was getting wrong.

Above statement only return https-www which doesn’t hold any contents, all I need is to redirect the https-www to https-non-www.

So, change to this one

server {
    listen 80;
	server_name www.garhve.com garhve.com;
	return 301 https://garhve.com$request_uri;
}	# this block will redirect http-both to https-both

server {
    listen 443 ssl http2;	#http2 is newer and more secure http
    listen [::]:443 ssl http2;
  
    server_name www.garhve.com;
    include /path_to_cert_file;
    return 301 https://garhve.com$request_uri;
}	# this block will redirect https-www to https-non-www

server {
    listen 443 ssl http2;
    listen [::]:443 ssl http2;
  
    server_name garhve.com;
    include /path_to_cert_file;
  
    #location to real content
}	# this block is where we hold web content.

It will redirect https-www to https-non-www. Now, both domain will point to same location – my home page.