How to redirect http to https on app platform

Posted on June 8, 2021

Hello fellow developers,

I’m using app platform to host a static website, and while my domain is registered on godaddy, I’ve pointed the nameservers to DO and everything is working fine with my domain. The problem happens when I enter the domain using http instead of https. How to redirect all http requests to https? For reference, my domain is twowords.design. According to this question, it’s not possible yet: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-to-redirect-301-on-the-digital-ocean-apps-platform However, it says here that http should automatically be redirected to https: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/is-possible-disable-http-in-digital-app-platform-static-site

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Dikshith Shetty

June 8, 2021

Accepted Answer

Hello @bavly

Yes, the domain will automatically be redirected to HTTPS and there are no changes required from your end. Already, I see the domain with HTTP link http://twowords.design/ is getting redirected to https://twowords.design/ successfully.

You can check the Location field in the below curl output:

curl -I http://twowords.design/ 
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2021 17:16:10 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
Cache-Control: max-age=3600
Expires: Tue, 08 Jun 2021 18:16:10 GMT
Location: https://twowords.design/
cf-request-id: 0a8e38f747000031b80e123000000001
Server: cloudflare
CF-RAY: 65c3c4387f1a31b8-BOM

The dig output is returning 3 IP addresses in which one associated with Droplet 161.35.103.124 so when it resolves to that IP address you might experience the issue. Please remove that Droplet IP address from A record list:

dig twowords.design +short
161.35.103.124
104.16.244.78
104.16.243.78

Docs for deleting the DNS record

Best Dikshith

screenmirroringcontact

September 23, 2021

Hi. Tell me please: can I use http without redirect to https?

P.S: I use site as websocket client. Client have to connect to websocket server. This server running on device in local network.
If site published as https, client have to connect to “wss://“ But I can’t use “wss://“ in local network, just “ws://“. Can I publish static site as “http”?

screenmirroringcontact

September 22, 2021

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