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Shirker
Asked: 2015-08-11 06:50:27 +0800 CST

Nginx: redirect default website http to https

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I have a website, that could have unknown amount of CNAME DNS records linked to it. What I need is to have ANY http requests to be redirected to https. We will be using a default certificate. No matter if it IP address or DNS name typed in the browser - all need to be forwarded to https

server {
    listen       80 default_server;
    listen       [::]:80 default_server;
    server_name  _;
    return         301 https://$host$request_uri;

I have tried $server_name as well.. If I go to http:// it redirects me to "https://_". Is there any equivalent to RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} in Apache?

nginx

2 Answers

  1. It seems that nginx is having equivalent to HTTP_HOST in Apache. So this works for me:

    return         301 https://$http_host$request_uri;
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  2. The proper way to do a Nginx redirect is with HTTP 301, not a rewrite. See here.

    As far as your server setup goes, see mine below. I define the server name on port 80, then redirect to HTTPS on port 443. Everything (SSL settings, root, index, etc...) is applied under this HTTPS server block.

    server {
        listen 80 default_server;                       #Listen on IPv4
        listen [::]:80;                                 #Listen on IPv6
        server_name loganmarchione.com;
        return 301 https://$host$request_uri;           #Redirect HTTP to HTTPS
}

server {
        listen 443 ssl spdy;                            #Listen on IPv4
        listen [::]:443 ssl spdy;                       #Listen on IPv6

        ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/ssl/unified2.crt;
        ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/ssl/my-private-decrypted.key;

        ...
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