Nginx redirect rewrite not working, www to non www

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Rewriting www to non-www is not working.

The domain.com URL works but www.domain.com gives the following error "Problem loading page - Mozilla Firefox - Server not found". I've cleared FF Cache, etc.. IE, says, Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage.

I tried the following configuration and all other rewrite examples from other tutorials, including the nginx documentation. Instead of restarting or reloading nginx, (nothing to chance) I rebooted system. My setup is a base install of Debian Lenny, nginx dependencies, and apt-get install nginx; that's it. Very simple test server. I created a domain.com file in sites-available and did a symbolic link to sites-enabled. Here is my domain.com config file (done in accordance with best practice, and followed the pitfall documentation section of nginx):

server {
  server_name www.domain.com;
  rewrite ^ $scheme://domain.com$request_uri permanent;
}

server {
  server_name domain.com;
  location / {
  root /srv/www/sites/domain.com;
        }
        }

What am I missing here? I also tried with nginx-0.8.54; compiled the latest stable version. I tried on two different physical servers; tried on vmware VMs; and tried accessing from remote computer. The rewrite according to everyone's tutorial seems to work, but for me it doesn't. I put Apache servers together no prob, but I keep banging my head against the desk on nginx.

Also, I did a local test and edited C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts to point to domain.com and www.domain.com; still doesn't work.

Anyone have a suggestion? Or is this a big secret? Like some secret rewrite module enabler?

Best Answer

Your etc\hosts reads 4 wwww. Change it to 3 www and it will work. It sounds like maybe you need to get some rest. :)

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