I had the same problem (trouble stripping ‘www’ from URLs that point to a sub-directory on an add-on domain), but after some trial and error, this seems to work for me: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,QSA,NC,L]
HTTP Solution From the documentation, “the right way is to define a separate server for example.org”: server { listen 80; server_name example.com; return 301 http://www.example.com$request_uri; } server { listen 80; server_name www.example.com; … } HTTPS Solution For those who want a solution including https://… server { listen 80; server_name www.domain.com; # $scheme will get the … Read more