Redirect HTTP Requests To HTTPS On Nginx
Introduction
This writeup shows you how to setup Nginx to redirect non-secure (http) requests to secure (https) ones.
Pre-requisites
- You have a Vultr Linux instance running Nginx.
- Your have domain name (e.g example.com) whose DNS A records for “@” and “www” are pointing to the IP of your Vultr machine above.
- Ideally you should also have SSL setup on your instance.
Setup redirect
Add an additional server block to your vhost setting so it looks similar to below:
server { listen 80; server_name example.com www.example.com; return 301 https://example.com$request_uri;}server { listen 443 ssl; server_name example.com; ssl_certificate /path/to/cert-crt.crt; ssl_certificate_key /path/to/cert-key.key; #other site settings go here (e.g. ssl, logs, site root)}
Written by Lami Adabonyan
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