nodubs

NoDubs

A really dumb but useful HTTP redirector service.

http[s]://www.$example.com => https://$example.com for anyone who points a www.-prefixed domain at the server's IP.

Status

This is an experiment. You absolutely shouldn't use it for anything serious.

Motivation

People have been trained to type "www.example.com", and I'm always having to add some mechanism to redirect requests to "example.com". That used to be easy when you had a traditional web server (apache/nginx/caddy), but has gotten annoying in the PaaS era.

Operation

This stupid bit of software does that for you with zero configuration. You just point www.yourdomain.com at a server running nodubs, and "Bob's your uncle", as the kids almost certainly never say any more.