Redirect azurewebsites.net to your custom domain

How to update Nginx to redirect to your custom domain.

App Services on Linux supports a number of built-in images to help fast track your development & If the runtime your application requires is not supported in the built-in images we also support building your own docker images & deploying this to App Services on Linux.

Depending on the path taken, Nginx may be the webserver used within the image & might require some additional configuration. Below, we’ll be walking through how to update the Nginx configuration file to redirect your users from azurewebsites.net & to your custom domain.

Getting Started

1. Using Azure Portal, open a new SSH session. (https://<your-site-name>.scm.azurewebsites.net/webssh/host)

2. Since we are using VIM below are a few of the basic commands we’ll reference.

   VIM Command	Description
   i	Enter Insert Mode
   <Esc> key	Enter command mode
   <Esc> + :wq	Save and quit Vim
   <Esc> + :q!	Force quit Vim discarding all changes
   [[ or gg	Move to the beginning of a file
   ]] or G	Move to the end of a file

Updating Nginx Default.conf - Server Block

1. Using vim Go to “/home/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf” & here we can see the default server configuration block. On line ten we should see “server_name _;” but instead we’ll update this with our custom domain of kdubuis.com which should be seen as “server_name kdubuis.com;”.

Updating Nginx Default.conf - Location Block

1. On line 58 we’ll find the location block which we will update a new condition to redirect to our custom domain.

     if ( $host != $server_name ) {
     return 301 $scheme://kdubuis.com$request_uri;
      }
   

   

Saving Changes

1. After the changes have been made & the files are saved, use command below to restart the Nginx Service & load the new configuration so that your redirects should be working as expected.

    nginx -s reload