How do I get nginx to issue 301 requests to HTTPS location, when SSL handled by a load-balancer?

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Published on 2012-11-15T14:28:39Z Indexed on 2012/11/20 5:01 UTC
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I've noticed that there's functionality enabled in nginx by default, whereby a url request without a trailing slash for a directory which exists in the filesystem automatically has a slash added through a 301 redirect.

E.g. if the directory css exists within my root, then requesting http://example.com/css will result in a 301 to http://example.com/css/.

However, I have another site where the SSL is offloaded by a load-balancer. In this case, when I request https://example.com/css, nginx issues a 301 redirect to http://example.com/css/, despite the fact that the HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO header is set to https by the load balancer.

Is this an nginx bug? Or a config setting I've missed somewhere?

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