Redirecting EC2 elb from http to https

Question

I want to redirect all the HTTP request to https request on elb. I have 2 ec2 instances. I am using nginx for the server. I have tried a rewriting the nginx conf files without any success. I would love some advice on it.

Answer 1

You can use ELB’s X-Forwarded-Proto header to detect if the original request was redirected from HTTP to HTTPS.

You can type this in your server configuration

if ($http_x_forwarded_proto = 'http') {

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

}

For more information, take a look at the official documentation.

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