Best way to redirect root page to /mail?

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Hi,

I would be interested in re-directing the default page:

"this is a mail-in-a-box

take control of your email at https://mailinabox.email/"

to go straight to /mail. So when a user accesses http://mail.domain.com it will be redirected to https://mail.domain.com/mail (the http to https already works out of the box).

Is this possible?

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yup u can change it on nginx config /etc/nginx/conf.d/local.conf

put this in TLS and SSL (80 and 443)

#return 301 https://yourdoma.in$request_uri; //make sure your comment your return 301
location = / {
	return 301 https://$server_name/mail;
}
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Thanks aa6my, that worked!

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Kinda late to the party but I was wondering if that won’t be overwritten. The file warns for this at the top. Now I’m thinking I’d rather solve this in a separate .conf but I’m struggling with that.

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Try this alternative: Access Mailbox From A Subdomain

6

Hi Gabriel, thank you for your reply.

I indeed saw that post after my response here but didn’t really like it that much. I thought doing a refresh this way leaves room for the client to do with the refresh as it pleases? Maybe I’m mistaken.

Normally I’d try doing it with a header(‘location: …’); in an index.php but for that I’d also have to alter /etc/nginx/conf.d/local.conf since that isn’t in the index directive there. But that brings us back to square one I guess :smile:

Anyway, I’ll give that solution a go. Really like MIAB so this is a minor “inconvenience” at most.

Again thank you very much!

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I did this with a simple meta redirect in HTML, on an otherwise empty index page at / (which for me is the /home/user-data/www/default/ since I don’t host sites on my MIAB)

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Jeah, neither are we so we’ll go for that as well.

Great to see this community being so alive.

Thank you very much!

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What I did: /etc/nginx/conf.d/local.conf is an autogenerated file. So if you add a 301 you probably will lose that change.
I looked for the file that generates it (the important part) find / -name "nginx-primaryonly.conf" and I added these lines to the beginning
location = / {
return 301 https://$server_name/mail;
}

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MiaB will overwrite possibly every nginx configuration file on update.

Not sure why the HTML header redirect on refresh is an issue.

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Sure, but will use that file to regenerate new ones.