http to https url in AWS Beanstalk single instance environment

Question

I deployed my NodeJS/Express app on AWS Beanstalk. The current config is :

Environment type: single instance
EC2 instance type: t2.micro
Node.js version: 10.15.0
No load balancer
Proxy server : Nginx

When deployed it gives me a URL http://<app-name>.<server-location>.elasticbeanstalk.com/

I tested (using Postman) my authenticate API with the URL - http://<app-name>.<server-location>.elasticbeanstalk.com/users/authenticate and it gives me the status code of 200 OK and is working fine.

When I use HTTPS instead of HTTP it doesn't work as expected. In postman I get below error:

There was an error connecting to https://<app-name>.<server-location>.elasticbeanstalk.com/users/authenticate

I have my frontend deployed on netlify and when I trigger the same request from my Web application it gives me below error :

The page at 'https://<app-name>.netlify.com/login' was loaded over HTTPS, but requested an insecure XMLHttpRequest endpoint 'http://<app-name>.<server-location>.elasticbeanstalk.com/users/authenticate'. This request has been blocked; the content must be served over HTTPS.

I understand that since my request is coming from https I need to have my backend configured to have https listener. I am not sure as to how I can accomplish this in AWS Beanstalk where I don't have a Load balancer and my env type is a single instance.

I am new to AWS. Appreciate your help. Thanks!

This might help: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5998694/how-to-create-an-https-server-in-node-js — Vignesh Bayari R., Feb 04 '19 at 12:46
Thanks. I read the solution but it requires changes in my node application. Can't I have it somehow configured on my server like in this case AWS Beanstalk. — Shantanu Tomar, Feb 04 '19 at 14:58

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 04 '19 at 14:05

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You'll need to add an .ebextension config file to:

Allow 443 traffic in your Security Group
Install the ssl package
copy the certificates from the application package to the ssl dir. (certificates can be created in the certificate manager) or paste them in the config file
edit nginx config

Here is an example https://edwardsamuel.wordpress.com/2015/07/17/enable-https-and-http-redirect-on-aws-elastic-beanstalk/

answered Feb 04 '19 at 14:05

Sammy Soeksdiek

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Thanks. But after reading the solution what I understand is that they are using ELB load balancer. I don't have any load balancer in my application as it is single env basic application. – Shantanu Tomar Feb 04 '19 at 14:57
You can cut out the loadbalancer parts. It should work. – Sammy Soeksdiek Feb 04 '19 at 15:01

http to https url in AWS Beanstalk single instance environment

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