with nginx having the base url rewrite to https
- by jchysk
I'd like only my base domain www.domain.com to be rewritten to https://www.domain.com
By default in my https block I have it reroute to http:// if it's not ~uri = "/" (base domain) or static content.
server {
listen 443;
set $ssltoggle 2;
if ($uri ~ ^/(img|js|css|static)/) {
set $ssltoggle 1;
}
if ($uri = '/') {
set $ssltoggle 1;
}
if ($ssltoggle != 1) {
rewrite ^(.*)$ http://$server_name$1 permanent;
}
}
So in my http block I need to do the rewrite if it has to https:
server {
listen 80;
if ($uri = '/') {
set $ssltoggle 1;
}
if ($ssltoggle = 1) {
rewrite ^(.*)$ https://$server_name$1 permanent;
}
}
If I don't have the $uri = '/' if-statement in the http block, then https works fine if I go directly to it, but I won't get redirected if I go to regular http which is expected. If I do put that in-statement in the http block then everything stops working within minutes. It might work for a few requests, but will always stop within a minute or so. In browsers I just get a blank page for all requests. If I restart nginx it continues to not work until I remove both if-statement blocks in both the https and http blocks and restart nginx. When I look in the error logs I don't see anything logged. When I look in the access log I see this message:
"-" 400 0 "-" "-"
which I assume means a 400 error.
I don't understand why this doesn't work for me. My end goal is to have the base domain be https-only while all other pages default to http. How can I achieve this?
