Shorten the redirect chain on nginx

Why it matters

The page is reached only after more redirects than our scanner follows (5), and each hop adds a round trip for visitors and crawlers. Usually http, www, a trailing slash and a language prefix are each redirected in a separate step; send the first request straight to the final address.

The fix

1. Redirect each name to the final address in one return, not to an intermediate one that redirects again; run sudo nginx -t and reload.

server {
    listen 80;
    listen [::]:80;
    server_name example.com;
    return 301 https://example.com$request_uri;
}

The examples use example.com. Replace it with your own domain.

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Related

• Reported by the HTTP to HTTPS redirect check
• Serve the site over HTTPS
• Stop redirecting HTTPS to HTTP
• Redirect HTTP to HTTPS
• Fix the broken HTTPS redirect chain
• Fix the HTTP redirect chain
• Redirect HTTP straight to HTTPS
• Answer HTTP with a redirect to HTTPS
• Redirect www and apex to one host
• Make the www or apex name work over HTTPS