Ghost blog is only accessible with www

Question

I have a Ghost blog hosted on digitalocean, my domain can only be accessible with a secure connection (it's a .dev site).

My site is available when I access it with www, e.g. www.androidoss.dev, but not when accessed directly as androidoss.dev.

What could be the issue?

Answer 1

If you have deployed the Ghost on the DigitalOcean server then it's running behind the Nginx probably. So during the Ghost installation there a command is executed which is ghost setup nginx which setup Nginx for you and then run ghost setup ssl which set up Let's Encrypt SSL for the provided domain name and it doesn't create a redirection rule from non-www to www.

So you can do this by adding a redirection URI in your Nginx file.

You have to add these lines in the server block for http. It will look like this and the file-path is /etc/nginx/sites-available/ww.example.com

server {
    listen       80;
   ...................
   ...................
}

you have to add the below lines at the place of dotted lines.

server_name  example.com www.example.com;
return       301 https://www.example.com$request_uri;