NGINX - Redirect to HTTPS

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I have been following the NGINX SSL with Let’s Encrypt tutorial and appear to have successfully configured SSL for my server, but it doesn’t appear to default to that. When I access my website with www.mysite.com it defaults to http, but if I use https://www.mysite.com, I am able to access the server, but it displays the NGINX server landing page (“Welcome to nginx!”) page on an initially created server. I followed the instructions outside of the ufw firewall setup, but I was wondering if that could actually be related to this problem or if a scenario like this would be related the NGINX server configuration. Can anyone provide some guidance?

Flamber Hansen · Accepted Answer

@connordphillips Here’s a new config for http to https redirect: #This server block will redirect http:// to https://www.mysite.com server { listen 80; listen [::]:80; server_name mysite.com www.mysite.com; return 301 https://www.mysite.com$request_uri; } #This server block will redirect https://mysite.com to https://www.mysite.com (expecting that you have a certificate for mysite.com as well as www.mysite.com server { listen 443 ssl http2; listen [::]:443 ssl http2; include snippets/ssl-www.mysite.com.conf; include snippets/ssl-params.conf; server_name mysite.com; return 301 https://www.$server_name$request_uri; } #This is the server block actually delivering content to the visitor server { listen 443 ssl http2 default_server; listen [::]:443 ssl http2 default_server; include snippets/ssl-www.mysite.com.conf; include snippets/ssl-params.conf; server_name www.mysite.com; client_max_body_size 100M; location ~ ^/\.well-known { root /var/www/ghost; allow all; } location / { proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:2368; proxy_buffering off; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme; proxy_set_header Referer ""; proxy_set_header Host $host; proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header X-Forward-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade; proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade"; proxy_http_version 1.1; } }

Jean Gérard Bousiquot · Answer

I think this could help https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-deploy-a-laravel-application-with-nginx-on-ubuntu-16-04?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=laravel_deploy_tut&utm_content=no_image#step-6-—-securing-your-application-with-tls

grrrero · Answer

Hi, I’m having the same problem but I’m not getting anywhere. The https site still shows the nginx webpage. :( Here’s my nginx config (with stuff that was added by Certbot): server { listen 85; listen [::]:85; server_name mydomain.com www.mydomain.com; return 301 https://mydomain.com$request_uri; } server { # SSL configuration listen 443 ssl http2; listen [::]:443 ssl http2; server_name mydomain.com; return 301 https://www.$server_name$request_uri; } server { listen 443 ssl http2 default_server; listen [::]:443 ssl http2 default_server; root /var/www/html; index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html; server_name mydomain.com www.mydomain.com; location / { try_files $uri $uri/ =404; } ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/.../fullchain.pem; # managed by Certbot ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/.../privkey.pem; # managed by Certbot include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf; # managed by Certbot ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams.pem; # managed by Certbot }

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