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http redirect to https with proxy pass to 5000

Hello, I am trying to redirect my http traffic to https and also proxy_pass to port 5000… i cannot get it to work? what am i doing wrong…?

server {
        listen 80;
        listen [::]:80;

        root /var/www/this/html;
        index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;

        server_name example.com www.example.com;


    if ($host = www.example.com) {
        return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
    } # managed by Certbot
    if ($host = example.com) {
        return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
    } # managed by Certbot


    listen [::]:443 ssl ipv6only=on; # managed by Certbot
    listen 443 ssl; # managed by Certbot
    ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/fullchain.pem; # managed by Certbot
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/privkey.pem; # managed by Certbot
    include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf; # managed by Certbot
    ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams.pem; # managed by Certbot

location / {
        proxy_pass http://localhost:5000; 
        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
        proxy_set_header Connection 'upgrade';
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_cache_bypass $http_upgrade;
    }
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KFSys • January 19, 2021

Hi @andrewlintonfife,

Everything looks perfectly fine from my point of view. Anyway, here is how I usually do such configs. Please give it a try and let me know how it goes :

#This server block will redirect http:// to https://www.mysite.com
server {
    listen 80;
    listen [::]:80;
    server_name mysite.com www.mysite.com;
    return 301 https://www.mysite.com$request_uri;
}

#This server block will redirect https://mysite.com to https://www.mysite.com (expecting that you have a certificate for mysite.com as well as www.mysite.com
server {
    listen 443 ssl http2;
    listen [::]:443 ssl http2;
    include snippets/ssl-www.mysite.com.conf;
    include snippets/ssl-params.conf;
    server_name mysite.com;
    return 301 https://www.$server_name$request_uri;
}

#This is the server block actually delivering content to the visitor
server {
    listen 443 ssl http2 default_server;
    listen [::]:443 ssl http2 default_server;
    include snippets/ssl-www.mysite.com.conf;
    include snippets/ssl-params.conf;

    server_name www.mysite.com;

    client_max_body_size 100M;

    location ~ ^/\.well-known {
        root /var/www/ghost;
        allow all;
    }

    location / {
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:5000;
        proxy_buffering off;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
        proxy_set_header Referer "";
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forward-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
        proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
        proxy_http_version 1.1;
    }
}

Remember to change mysite.com with your actual domain! Once you do make the changes, please don’t forget to actually restart Nginx.

Looking forward to your reply

Regards, KFSys

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