301在Passenger（Ruby on Rails）中从根域重定向到www子域？

Question

How can you create a permanent redirect (301) in Passenger? There are posts elsewhere on how to perform the redirect in Rails, but it seems better to do the redirect at the server level rather than at the Rails level.

Any clues?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Server-level redirects are done with the HTTP server, not the Application server. Here's some examples:

Apache

<VirtualHost xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80>
    ServerAlias example.com
    Redirect Permanent / http://www.example.com
</VirtualHost>

Nginx

server {
  server_name example.com;
  rewrite ^/(.*) http://www.example.com/$1 permanent;
}

Lighttpd

$HTTP["host"] =~ "^example\.com$" {
  url.redirect = ( "^/(.*)" => "http://www.example.com/$1" )
}

While it's technically possible to achieve this later in the stack, like with a Rack app, it makes the most sense to do this as early as possible to save your server cpu cycles. Sometimes you have to do this later, for instance with a host like Heroku that won't let you change your HTTP settings, but if you have the option to do it here that's what I recommend.

Answer 2

Are you sure you want it at the Passenger level and not at the Nginx/Apache level... ie, why have the redirect even get that far down the stack.

Depending on what server you are using, there are resources on the net that tell you how do accomplish this.