How do I do a 301 redirect with Azure Wordpress running Nginx?

Question

I have an app service using the azure provided WordPress image, which uses the wordpress-alpine-php docker image, running nginx version 1.20.2. I need to redirect HTTP to HTTPS, and www to non-www, with the Azure AppService version of WordPress. There isn't much documentation on this, and nothing I have tried has worked.

My issue is similar to the one described in this question, but the solution doesn't work. The file reference in that question, /etc/nginx/sites-available/default, does not exist. The sites-available folder does not exist, but there are files named default in these two locations:

/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf

./etc/nginx*/http.d*/default.conf

I have seen information saying I should add the server block to nginx.conf, but there are also two versions of this file, in the following locations:

• /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
• /home/site/wwwroot/nginx.conf

I've tried both of them, but neither seems to work. The one under etc doesn't seem to persist a container reload. I do know about copying the correct version and then reloading nginx with a startup command, as described in this Microsoft article. This doesn't work, but I may be copying over the wrong file.

After the copy, I restart Nginx with the command service nginx reload, but I get the following error.

The article above says to use this command service nginx restart, but it gives the error below:

How can I get the redirect to work?

Is there a better way to do this with the azure app service?

Answer 1

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Fixed the issue by implementing the startup command inside of /home/dev/startup.sh and over the configuration>>startup command.
 
Everytime App Service is restarted, it will create this dev folder by default, so, it will initialize this file instead we created it manually.

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