Multiple domain forwarding in Trellis

[soueuls]

Hello,

I am developing a site for a client and the setup is a little bit more complex than what I am used to. They bought various domain extensions to which .com is the canonical one.

wordpress_sites:
  example.com:
    site_hosts:
      - canonical: example.com
        redirects:
          - example.fr
          - www.example.fr
          - example.eu
          - www.example.eu
          - example.pt
          - www.example.pt
    local_path: ../site # path targeting local Bedrock site directory (relative to Ansible root)
    repo: git@github.com:example/example.com.git # replace with your Git repo URL
    repo_subtree_path: site # relative path to your Bedrock/WP directory in your repo
    branch: master
    multisite:
      enabled: false
    ssl:
      enabled: false
      provider: letsencrypt
    cache:
      enabled: false

Do I really need to write these 6 redirects to handle all the cases?
Is it possible to use a regex such as (www.)?example.(fr|eu|pt)
Or something similar?

I am not really sure I am doing it right, I would appreciate a quick feedbacks to point me in the right direction.

Swann

[alwaysblank]

Is there a reason you can’t do those redirects at the DNS level and then only worry about the canonical domain on the server?

[soueuls]

My ignorance is probably the only reason.
I did setup a CNAME for all www for each extension.

From my understanding it does not rewrite, it just merely route www.example.fr to the IP address example.fr is pointing to.

So I still need to tell my Trellis how to redirect, no?

[alwaysblank]

Based on my (admittedly limited) understanding of the Trellis role that generates redirects, Trellis will also just redirect to the cannonical URL, not do rewrites: https://github.com/roots/trellis/blob/8661144e847c1c7e6d4119d194958c295516cb1b/roles/wordpress-setup/templates/wordpress-site.conf.j2#L280-L305 If you need re-writes I think you’ll need to dig into the nginx config a little bit.

If all you want is a regex for redirect, it looks like you might be able to do that. It looks like Trellis is just iterating over the items in redirects, so in theory I think you could put a single item in there that contains a properly-formatted regex that nginx understands. That’s just based on 5 minutes of Googling though, not actual experience, so ¯\(ツ)/¯

[soueuls]

Alright I still have no idea how CNAME works under the hood but remove all the redirects lines with the “www” and replaced all the others by a regex. It works.

[JordanC26]

Hi @soueuls, do you mind sharing the regex you used?

[soueuls]

Hello @JordanC26,

I finally decided to stay away from using regex inside the Trellis config.