Solve SSL Issue for Nginx 301 Redirect

SSL for additional domains

You may wish to have multiple domains that redirect to your site, e.g. to have an extra TLD or to support www. domains. Ghost itself can only ever have one domain pointed at it. This is intentional for SEO purposes, however you can always redirect extra domains to your Ghost install using nginx.

If you want to redirect an HTTPS domain, you must have a certificate for it. If you want to use Ghost-CLI to generate an extra SSL setup, follow this guide:

# Determine your secondary URL
ghost config url https://my-second-domain.com
# Get Ghost-CLI to generate an SSL setup for you:
ghost setup nginx ssl
# Change your config back to your canonical domain
ghost config url https://my-canonical-domain.com

# Edit the nginx config files for your second domain to redirect to your canonical domain. In both files replace the content of the first location block with:

return 301 https://my-canonical-domain.com$request_uri;

# Get nginx to verify your config
sudo nginx -t
# Reload nginx with your new config
sudo nginx -s reload

Note:

(1) Edit both of the .conf files for your second domain. It’s normally located in /var/www/ghost/system/files/

(2) Only remove the first “location” block. The second one, which includes “.well-known”, is used for renewing your certificate(s).

(3) Always use sudo nginx -t to verify your config before reload Nginx.

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