Jelastic Enforce SSL on NodeJS

Question

I'm trying to enforce the SSL protocol in a Jelastic Enviroment. My setup is:

one node, with a Nginx Load balancer (+ public ip + custom ssl certificate) and a NodeJS application server.

The SSL setup is working, but i want to enforce the use of HTTPS no HTTP (a redirect).

I've tried to modify the nginx.conf but no success.

Any ideas how should I do that?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 30 '20 at 16:16

Create the config file /etc/nginx/conf.d/nginx_force_https.conf and add the lines below:

server {
    listen 80;       
    server_name _;
    return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
}

It will redirect all configured sites to https.

If you want only exact site example.com:

server {   
    listen 80;
    server_name example.com;
    return 301 https://example.com$request_uri;
}

Make sure that you have these includes enabled in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

include /etc/nginx/nginx-jelastic.conf;

in /etc/nginx/nginx-jelastic.conf:

include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;

Check for errors in the configuration:

sudo service nginx configtest

Reload configuration (this would be enough to make changes "work"):

sudo service nginx reload

Check if all works as expected. Restart the whole webserver (if needed):

sudo service nginx restart

The detailed answer can be found in this post Force www. and https in nginx.conf (SSL)

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