How do I direct http to hsts?

Hi @cartisim,

There are a few ways to do so. One method I like to do is catch-all port 80 (http) requests and redirect them to port 443 (https).

This works when you know you want all configured sites to definitely only use https.

server {
    listen 80 default_server;

    server_name _;

    return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
}

This listens on port 80. It’s also the port 80 default server. It’s assumed that it’s the only server block listening on port 80.

The server_name is _, which matches any hostname used.

Finally, you return a 301 redirect to the https version of whatever URI was requested. We know all requests reaching this server block is http, because it only listens for port 80 requests.

Your Website/Application can then be set to listen on port 443 for SSL connections only.

server {
    listen 443 ssl default_server;
    server_name foo.com;
}

server {
    listen 443 ssl;
    server_name bar.com;
}

# and so on...
```

Any site can be the default_server for port 443. That's up to you to set and likely won't matter in practice.

Regards,
KDSys