Nginx将外部域重定向到我自己的域

Question

There is one strange domain that is pointing to the IP address of my server. Sometimes DNS gets confused and it says that I am connected to that domain instead of my own.

I tried contacting the domain owner and domain registrar to remove the DNS A record that points to my machine but they weren't helpful at all

Now I am trying to redirect:

www.foreigndomain.com

to

www.myowndomain.com

so when someone types or opens www.foreigndomain.com it redirects to the my original domain instead serving my content under the www.foreigndomain.com.

I tried to add this to nginx.conf:

server {
  server_name .foreigndomain.com;
  rewrite ^ http://www.myowndomain.com$request_uri? permanent;
}

but this creates a redirect loop, I'm not quite sure why.

How do I do this right?

Answer 1

The redirect loop happens because www.myowndomain.com matches the same server that does the redirection, to fix this create another server to capture that server name

server {
  server_name .foreigndomain.com;
  return 301 http://www.myowndomain.com$request_uri;
}
server {
  server_name www.myowndomain.com;
  location / {
    #config here
  }
}

If you already have a server with server name myowndomain.com then you need to add the www variant to it.

server {
  server_name myowndomain.com www.myowndomain.com;
  location / {
    # config here
  }
}

Answer 2

Try this rewrite variant:

server {
  server_name .foreigndomain.com;
  return 301 http://www.myowndomain.com$request_uri;
}