Do I Have Correct DNS Records to Do Permanent Redirect?
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<url url="http://www.example.com">http://www.example.com</url> -> <url url="https://www.example.com">https://www.example.com</url>
<url url="https://example.com">https://example.com</url> -> <url url="https://www.example.com">https://www.example.com</url></list>
Some articles I've read say that I need to have the following DNS A records:
@ <my server="" ip="">www</my>
What I see in my Linode DNS Manager is this:
Hostname IP Address
<my server="" ip="">mail <my server="" ip="">www</my></my>
Is that first record where the Hostname field is blank the "@" record? Do I need any additional DNS records to implement the redirection I want?
By the way, I realize I will still need to reconfigure Nginx. I just want to ensure that I have things correct from a DNS perspective.
Thanks.
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mcintosh
Linode Staff
@rlfprog:
I have implemented SSL on my Nginx website (say it's example.com) and everything seems to be working correctly. However, I want to ensure that the following redirects always happen:
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http://example.com ->https://www.example.com <url url="http://www.example.com">http://www.example.com</url> -> <url url="https://www.example.com">https://www.example.com</url> <url url="https://example.com">https://example.com</url> -> <url url="https://www.example.com">https://www.example.com</url></list>Some articles I've read say that I need to have the following DNS A records:
@ <my server="" ip="">www</my>What I see in my Linode DNS Manager is this:
Hostname IP Address <my server="" ip="">mail <my server="" ip="">www</my></my>Is that first record where the Hostname field is blank the "@" record? Do I need any additional DNS records to implement the redirection I want?
Thanks.
Those records look fine (@ and blank are equivalent hostnames) however A records won't direct https traffic to http – that's something your web server needs to take care of. If it's already re-directing properly, then you should be good to go with those A records.
