How to Redirect Multiple Domains to a Single Domain in Azure WordPress Service Plan?

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How to Redirect Multiple Domains to a Single Domain in Azure WordPress Service Plan?

Abel Moremi 0

Hello everyone,

I've deployed an Azure WordPress Service Plan running on Linux, and everything is working well so far. I've attached three domains to the App Service Plan. However, I would like to redirect two of these domains to a primary domain.

Could someone please guide me on how to set up this domain redirection within the Azure WordPress Service Plan? Any specific configurations or steps would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance for your help!

ajkuma 28,036 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2024-08-07T21:01:55.14+00:00

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ajkuma 28,036 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2024-08-07T21:01:55.14+00:00

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ajkuma 28,036 Microsoft Employee Moderator

Abel Moremi, Apologies for the delayed response.

Based on my understanding of your scenario, you may try the following approaches:

Ensure all your custom domains are properly set up and verified in your Azure App Service.

Configure URL Redirection in WordPress:

Log in to your WordPress admin dashboard.
Go to "Settings" > "General".
Update the "Site Address (URL)" field to your primary domain.
(This ensures that WordPress uses the primary domain for all URLs.)
Save the changes.

Just to highlight, Wordpress on Linux refers to the offering that is found here - Create a WordPress site --This uses an Alpine-based image with NGINX and PHP-FPM (currently PHP 8.x). NGINX is the web server used.

On App Service either going to change nginx.conf or default.conf.

Copy /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf to /home/dev. Our copy of the file will exist as /home/dev/default.conf
Edit the existing startup fie in /home/dev/startup.sh to include the following:

#!/bin/bash

echo "Copying custom default.conf over to /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf"

cp /home/dev/default.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d/default
nginx -s reload

3.Now, depending on what kind of redirect to be done, edit the default.conf with your intended change below.

Kindly let us know, I'll follow-up with you further.

Please accept as "Yes" if the answer provided is useful , so that you can help others in the community looking for remediation for similar issues.

Abel Moremi 0

I have implemented the above;

Created the default.conf under the "home/dev" directory.
When I restarted the app service plan, I set up the start-up script and functions as expected.
The issue is that there is no redirect happening, I am not sure what's wrong below are the additions I have made to the new default.conf.

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name example1.co.bw www.example1.co.bw;
    return 301 $scheme://example3.tech$request_uri;
}
server {
    listen 80;
    server_name example2.co.zm www.example2.co.zm;
    return 301 $scheme://example3.tech$request_uri;
}
server {
    listen 80;
    server_name www.example3.tech;
    return 301 $scheme://example3.tech$request_uri;
}
server {
    listen 80;
    server_name example3.tech;
    
    root /var/www/wordpress;
    index index.php;
........

ajkuma 28,036 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2024-08-19T19:17:24.3866667+00:00

Thanks for the follow-up and update. While I'm checking, you may checkout the steps/approached outlined in these docs and let us know if you have any questions.

RewriteRule sample for WordPress in subdirectory

Redirect azurewebsites.net to your custom domain

Similar discussion thread: Hosting multiple domains under one app service
Abel Moremi 0 Reputation points

2024-08-27T09:58:06.3566667+00:00

I am still facing the same issue, I cannot do a redirect, although the start-up script has replaced the default. I have checked the links that you sent. They were not useful, either I have implemented them or they are for the old set up.
ajkuma 28,036 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2024-08-28T17:30:41.43+00:00

Thanks for the follow-up and update. For a closer investigation, I have followed-up with you privately.

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