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Boba Fett likes JS
Boba Fett likes JS

Reputation: 767

Nginx redirect to https issues

I been struggling for a while to find a solution for a problem that I have: I need to redirect all http request to https excepting a specific page under a certain location. I have the following:

server {
        listen       80;
        listen       443 ssl;
        server_name  myserver;
        root         /var/www/example.org/htdocs;
        index        index.html;
        .
        .
}

I can't use:

server {
       listen         80;
       server_name    my.domain.com;
       return         301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
}
server {
           listen         443 ssl;
           server_name    my.domain.com;
           .
           .
    }

I found a good solution in here

The problem with the solution is that the redirect gets into an infinitive loop, the solution is something like, after my changes:

map $uri $example_org_preferred_proto {
    default "https";
    ~^/post/ "http";
}
server {
    listen 80;
    listen 443 ssl;
    server_name example.org;
    root /var/www/example.org/htdocs;

    if ($example_org_preferred_proto = "https") {
        return 301 $example_org_preferred_proto://example.org$request_uri;
    }
}

I understand logic of the problem:

  1. I get a request like: http://wwww.example.com/test -> redirects to https://wwww.example.com/test

  2. Now I get a request like: https://wwww.example.com/test -> redirects to https://wwww.example.com/test

  3. Now I get a request like: https://wwww.example.com/test -> redirects to https://wwww.example.com/test and got into a loop ....

I need a way to stop after redirect one time.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 228

Answers (1)

Dmitry Verhoturov
Dmitry Verhoturov

Reputation: 6082

server {
    listen       80;
    server_name  wwww.example.com;
    root         /var/www/example.org/htdocs;
    location /test {
        try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
    }
    location / {
        return         301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
    }
}

server {
    listen       443 ssl;
    ## here goes other ssl staff which you can find by link:
    ## https://gist.github.com/paskal/628882bee1948ef126dd
    server_name example.org;
    root /var/www/example.org/htdocs;
    location /test {
        try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
    }
    location / {
        return         301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
    }
}

Best solution is simplest one. You need to serve only one location and redirect anything else - so do it. If you have problem with using two server blocks, please describe it in detail.

Upvotes: 1

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