Redirect from the non WWW domain to the WWW domain in the Azure WordPress Market Place offering-

1. Navigate to your App Service via the Azure Portal. Under the Development Tools section, select SSH then Go -->.

2. Modify the default site config - You would need to make a copy of the existing configuration and place the file inside the /home/site directory by running the below command.

cp /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf /home/site/default

1. Go to https://<app name>.scm.azurewebsites.net/newui/fileManager click on Modify site/default file.
   

1. in the existing server block update the server name to www domain
   

server {

listen 80;

## Your website name goes here.

server_name www.example.com

1. In the same default.conf file, you can create a new server block and add the below configurations for non-www to www redirection -
   

server {

listen 80;

server_name example.com;

return 301 $scheme://www.example.com$request_uri;

}

// This directive tells Nginx to send any request //for http://example.com to http://www.example.com with HTTP redirect code 301.

1. Copy the following code snippet to /home/dev/startup.sh.
   

cp /home/site/default /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf

/usr/sbin/nginx -s reload

1. Please restart App Service and verify that the redirect from non www domain to www domain works fine.
   

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