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Vignesh
Vignesh

Reputation: 115

Redirect http requests to https for website hosted on AWS EC2

The setup: Domain is purchased at Godaddy and the website is hosted in AWS EC2 Instance in a nodejs environment. (SSL is also purchased for https purpose)

Problem: I have setup SSL using the following code:

var https = require('https');
var http = require('http');
const config = require('./config');
const fs = require('fs');

var app = express();
var redirectApp = express();

var options = {
    key: fs.readFileSync(config.sslKeyPath),
    cert: fs.readFileSync(config.sslCertPath),
    ca: fs.readFileSync(config.sslCaPath)
};

var server = https.createServer(options, app);
var redirectServer = http.createServer(redirectApp);

redirectApp.use(function requireHTTPS(req, res, next) {
  if (!req.secure) {
    return res.redirect('https://www.domain.com'+ req.url);
  }
  next();
});

server.listen(httpsport, function() {
    console.log("Listening on " + port);
});

redirectServer.listen(httpport, function() {
    console.log("Listening on " + port);
});

After deployment, I am able to access https://www.domain.com and https://domain.com but the http://www.domain.com or http://domain.com requests are not getting forwarded to https version. (server error). Please provide a solution to solve this. I tried forwarding the domain to https version in godaddy and it is of no use.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1877

Answers (1)

Dave Briand
Dave Briand

Reputation: 1734

This will force https on all requests. You may want to put if in front of it to check for an 'dev' or 'production' environment variable.

    app.use(function(req, res, next) {
      if ((req.get('X-Forwarded-Proto') !== 'https')) {
        res.redirect('https://' + req.get('Host') + req.url);
      } else
        next();
    });

Upvotes: 3

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