In many online tutorials you will find just few lines like
server {
server_name www.example.com;
return 301 $scheme://example.com$request_uri;
}
but actually you need much more, you need to include SSL certificates, otherwise you will get message about insecure site so you should have this
server {
listen 443 ssl;
ssl_certificate /path/to/server.cert;
ssl_certificate_key /path/to/server.key;
server_name www.example.com;
return 301 https://example.com$request_uri;
}
or actually this would be the best way to solve this all together
server {
server_name www.example.com example.com;
return 301 https://example.com$request_uri;
}
server {
listen 443 ssl;
ssl_certificate /path/to/server.cert;
ssl_certificate_key /path/to/server.key;
server_name www.example.com;
return 301 https://example.com$request_uri;
}
server {
listen 443 ssl;
ssl_certificate /path/to/server.cert;
ssl_certificate_key /path/to/server.key;
server_name example.com;
<locations for processing requests>
}
which can be found here on this link
https://serverfault.com/questions/258378/remove-www-and-redirect-to-htt…