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Mervin Hemaraju
Asked: 2020-12-21 10:29:52 +0800 CST

nginx redirect to domain when user enters IP address

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I have several domains configured for my websites on my VPS.

What I want to achieve is: If a user enters the IP address of my VPS directly on his/her browser, like this: https://X.X.X.X, I want it to redirect to one of my websites.

I was able to make it work for HTTP (http://X.X.X.X) like this:

server {
    listen       80;
    server_name  IP_OF_MY_VPS;

    return       301 https://example.com$request_uri;
}

However, if the user enters https://X.X.X.X, it doesn't work. Can someone please help out ?

nginx ubuntu-20.04

2 Answers

  1. You need to add a valid https block for the IP address.

    However, since you cannot get certificates which can be used with an IP address, you will be left with a URL that gives a SSL error from the browser.

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  2. It's because HTTPS uses port 443. So just add another listen statement like this:

    server {
    listen       80;
    listen       443;
    server_name  IP_OF_MY_VPS;

    return       301 https://example.com$request_uri;
}
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