Configuring Redirects

[peer]

@Jules-Bertholet

Also what happens if, instead of the modification I proposed earlier, you change the line location / { in framaforms.conf to read location /myform {, and change the line alias /var/www/framaforms/app/ ; to root /var/www/framaforms/app/ ;?

NGINX came back to life!

And now both mydomain.tld and forms.mydomain.tld are redirected to anotherdomain.tld.

The only problem is that forms.mydomain.tld/myform is redirected to anotherdomain.tld too.

[peer]

@Jules-Bertholet

Note that in any case what you are trying to do may not work well even if you fix the NGINX config. I have never used Framaforms so I am not certain, but if the webpage for your form at “forms.mydomain.tld/myform” needs to load resources (like js, css, images, etc) that are on “forms.mydomain.tld” but on another subpath, those resources won’t be able to load because your redirect will be intercepting the requests.

I understand, thank you.

I think I can live without redirecting forms.mydomain.tld. I think I will just have to delete its redirect.conf file.

I guess redirecting *.mydomain.tld except forms.mydomain.tld/myform is not easy. So I will just try to do at least another redirect for www.mydomain.tld, which will be satisfyingly enough for me.

[peer]

@peer

I will just try to do at least another redirect for www.mydomain.tld, which will be satisfyingly enough for me.

In order to achieve it, I added a Yunohost domain: www.mydomain.tld.
And then I copied the redirect file in its corresponding directory.
But the redirect does not work.
Am I missing something?

peer@mymachine:/etc/nginx/conf.d/www.mydomain.tld.d$ ls -hal
total 12K
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Mar 22 17:29 .
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4.0K Mar 22 17:21 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   52 Mar 22 17:29 redirect.conf
peer@mymachine:/etc/nginx/conf.d/www.mydomain.tld.d$ 
peer@mymachine:/etc/nginx/conf.d/www.mydomain.tld.d$ 
peer@mymachine:/etc/nginx/conf.d/www.mydomain.tld.d$ cat redirect.conf 
location / {
  return 301 https://anotherdomain.tld;
}
peer@mymachine:/etc/nginx/conf.d/www.mydomain.tld.d$ 

[Jules-Bertholet]

Did you restart nginx?

[peer]

Yes, I did. Thank you.

I was struggling to find out where the problem was. Got it now. This time was a wrong record I had at my DDNS service. I fixed it and everything is ok now!

I don’t have a redirection from forms.mydomain.tld but I’m happy if the redirection for mydomain.tld and www.mydomain.tld work, and that’s the case.

Lots of thanks for your help and explanations!!