How to force HTTP to HTTPS?

springway

Hi everyone, I have just begin to learn about Nodebb and it is a great forum. I need to run (force) all http connections to https, how could I do that that please? E.g. if I type http://mysite.com in the address bar. then https://mysite.com loads instead. I have a signed SSL already installed on the server, and both http://mysite.com and https://mysite.com work fine. Thanks

julian

Hi there @springway

You'll want to add a new server block to intercept HTTP traffic and redirect it to your HTTPS site:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name mysite.com;

    return 301    https://mysite.com$request_uri;
}

springway

@julian Hey, thanks @julian for your reply. Currently I configured the server block (btw I am using Nginx v1.6.2 to proxy the port number in the URL) in a way to handle both HTTP and HTTPS protocols:

server {
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;
listen 443 ssl;

... location to ssl certificate and key + SSL specific config;

... server root info;

server_name mysite.com www.mysite.com;
location / {
# proxy, proxy pass and socket.io info to handle the port and use mysite.com instead of mysite.com:4567 (same as Nodebb user manual)
}
}

Shall I add a new server block to force reload HTTPS instead of HTTP connections or just add the return 301 command to current server block? Thanks

julian

In this site, we have two server blocks. One for http connections, listening on port 80,which redirects to https, and another for the proper https connection

springway

Awesome, thanks @julian
I created a second server block to handle all HTTP connections and redirects them to HTTPS server block and it works great.
Thanks

Henry Wright

@julian can this (redirect all HTTP requests to HTTPS) be done with Apache?