First make sure you have installed Nginx with the HTTP rewrite module. To install this we need to have pcre-library
If the above mentioned are done or if you already have them, then just add the below code in your nginx server block
if ($host !~* ^www\.) {
rewrite ^(.*)$ http://www.$host$1 permanent;
}
To remove www from every request you can use
if ($host = 'www.your_domain.com' ) {
rewrite ^/(.*)$ http://your_domain.com/$1 permanent;
}
so your server block will look like
server {
listen 80;
server_name test.com;
if ($host !~* ^www\.) {
rewrite ^(.*)$ http://www.$host$1 permanent;
}
client_max_body_size 10M;
client_body_buffer_size 128k;
root /home/test/test/public;
passenger_enabled on;
rails_env production;
error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
location = /50x.html {
root html;
}
}