Is it possible to have 2 sites (1 www and 1 root) with Forge?

You need to edit the nginx config for domain.com. There is a www redirect to non-www rewrite in there. Something like

server_name www.domain.com;

return 301 https://domain.com$request_uri;

Thanks @Cronix for the suggestion. Unfortunately, there are no return statements (or redirects) in the nginx config. I checked the config for domain.com and staging.domain.com.

I have also replaced the A records with CNAME records hoping that could resolve it but it did not.

Here are the configs for nginx:

domain.com

server_name .domain.com;
root /home/forge/domain.com/public;

staging.domain.com

server_name .staging.domain.com;
root /home/forge/staging.domain.com/public;

www.domain.com

server_name www.domain.com;
root /home/forge/www.domain.com/public;

@awhite did you enable Let's encrypt or another SSL cert? Forge automatically adds the www subdomain into the "before" nginx configuration per default. You can checkout the config file in /etc/nginx/forge-conf/<<your site>>/before.

@fabricecw that's exactly it, thank you so much!

I found

server_name www.domain.com;
return 301 https://domain.com$request_uri;

in the /etc/nginx/forge-conf/<<your site>>/before/ssl_redirect.conf

Thank you and @Cronix for the help!

As a quick follow up, is it safe to edit the ssl_redirect.conf and how did it get that configuration?

I think the ssl_redirect.conf is auto-generated when activating a certificate. Have you removed the "www" form the Let's Encrypt certificate?

Yes, I noticed the same auto-generation when activating a certificate. I imported a certificate and it included 'www' so maybe that's how the configuration was created.

Rather than generating new certificates (1 for domain.com, 1 for staging.domain.com and 1 for www.domain.com), I simply commented out the redirect in each ssl_redirect.conf file.

I'm not sure of the pros/cons of 1 aggregated certificate vs. individual ones. My approach seems a little hacky so maybe I'll swap to individual certificates over the weekend.

Did you contact Forge support? They may have better guidance.

No, and oddly that didn't occur to me. Thanks for the suggestion. If I learn anything helpful, I'll post back.