nginx root to www redirect - possible bug?

[stevelenoble]

Hello. Here is my configuration:

ee cli info
+-------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| OS                | Linux 5.4.0-39-generic #43-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jun 19 10:28:31 UTC 2020 x86_64 |
| Shell             | /bin/bash                                                                 |
| PHP binary        | /usr/bin/php7.3                                                           |
| PHP version       | 7.3.22-1+ubuntu20.04.1+deb.sury.org+1                                     |
| php.ini used      | /etc/php/7.3/cli/php.ini                                                  |
| EE root dir       | phar://ee.phar                                                            |
| EE vendor dir     | phar://ee.phar/vendor                                                     |
| EE phar path      | /root                                                                     |
| EE packages dir   |                                                                           |
| EE global config  | /opt/easyengine/config/config.yml                                         |
| EE project config |                                                                           |
| EE version        | 4.1.1                                                                     |
+-------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Logically, there should be a manual way to add a redirect in one of the nginx configuration files (I can see existing configurations for some of my other domains)

I see 2 main places where that info could be inserted:
/opt/easyengine/services/nginx-proxy/conf.d/www.mydomain.com-redirect.conf
or even
opt/easyengine/sites/afrostellar.com/config/nginx/custom/user.conf

However, any insertion prevents the server from functioning (stopping all other vhosts when under the nginx-proxy conf directory)

I have also tried with two other places just to be sure:
/var/lib/docker/volumes/global-nginx-proxy_confd/_data/www.mydomain.com-redirect.conf
or
/var/lib/docker/volumes/wwwmydomaincom_config_nginx/_data/custom/user.conf

For the global configuration change (www.mydomain.com-redirect.conf), I get:

ee service restart nginx-proxy
Restarting services_global-nginx-proxy_1 ... done

Success: Service global-nginx-proxy restarted.

However, all sites stop working after this change.

For the targeted configuration change (user.conf), I get:

[emerg] 12#12: "server" directive is not allowed here in /usr/local/openresty/nginx/conf/custom/user.conf:3
nginx: [emerg] "server" directive is not allowed here in /usr/local/openresty/nginx/conf/custom/user.conf:3
nginx: configuration file /usr/local/openresty/nginx/conf/nginx.conf test failed

Can you help, please? I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong or if there is a bug...

Here is the code: I try to insert:

server {
        listen  80;
        server_name  mydomain.com;
        return  301 https://www.mydomain.com$request_uri;
}
server {
        listen  443;
        ssl_protocols TLSv1.2 TLSv1.3;
        ssl_ciphers 'ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA2>
        ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
        ssl_session_timeout 5m;
        ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:50m;
        ssl_session_tickets off;
        ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/certs/www.mydomain.com.crt;
        ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/certs/www.mydomain.com.key;
        server_name  mydomain.com;
        return  301 https://www.mydomain.com$request_uri;
}

Thanks for any help.

Steve

[cerbenus]

I'm having the same problem and the longer I spend time I too believe it's a bug... All documents I find always use server directives. I can't find one example that doesn't.

[cerbenus]

Found this one:

https://easyengine.io/tutorials/nginx/www-non-www-redirection/

Clearly, using server directives...

[tmsbrasil]

I used this command to solve it ee site update example.com --add-alias-domains='www.example.com'