Hi,
I am trying to set up SSL with this tutorial - https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-secure-nginx-with-let-s-encrypt-on-ubuntu-16-04#step-1-install-let’s-encrypt-client
Everything went okay but when I try to go to my subdomain (only this should be encrypted), I am getting following:
The work-bot.be-codified.com page isn’t working
work-bot.be-codified.com redirected you too many times.
Here is my /etc/nginx/sites-available/default file
server {
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server;
server_name work-bot.be-codified.com;
return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
# SSL configuration
#
listen 443 ssl http2 default_server;
listen [::]:443 ssl http2 default_server;
include snippets/ssl-work-bot.be-codified.com.conf;
include snippets/ssl-params.conf;
Can somebody please tell me what is wrong?
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Because you haven’t used a second server
block to house the SSL site’s configuration, the return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
line redirects you to the SSL version of your site regardless of the scheme.
To rectify this, you can split the configuration into 2 server blocks, one for plaintext and another for SSL.
server { # Non-SSL configuration
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server;
server_name work-bot.be-codified.com;
return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
}
server { # SSL configuration
listen 443 ssl http2 default_server;
listen [::]:443 ssl http2 default_server;
server_name work-bot.be-codified.com;
include snippets/ssl-work-bot.be-codified.com.conf;
include snippets/ssl-params.conf;
}
(NOT RECCOMENDED) OR you can put the non-SSL specific configuration inside and if
block, and that would make it apply only over http (or vice versa). Note that if
blocks are generally not a good idea to use for reasons outlined in https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/start/topics/depth/ifisevil/
server {
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server;
server_name work-bot.be-codified.com;
if ($scheme = "http") { # Only redirect if not using SSL
return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
}
# SSL configuration
#
listen 443 ssl http2 default_server;
listen [::]:443 ssl http2 default_server;
include snippets/ssl-work-bot.be-codified.com.conf;
include snippets/ssl-params.conf;
}
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