By pope
Hello,
Droplet: Ubuntu Django on 14.04
I want to configure Nginx to serve the admin portion of my Django site over SSL but not the rest of the site. The admin features are at example.com/admin/*. Is there a way to just serve this location over SSL?
Thanks!
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Yes, basically what you do is make it redirect the URL when you’re accessing /admin, something like this:
location /admin {
return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
}
Then you have a server-block which will handle all the SSL-requests, basically the same as your other server-block for non-SSL traffic, but only listening on SSL. If you choose to combine the two server-blocks into one you have to check every request with an if-statement, which is not recommended.
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