Nginx LB HTTP to HTTPS redirect

Overview

If you have an nginx load balancer in you environment and want to redirect all requests to https then you can add the following configuration.

nginx configuration

On the nginx load balancer node select config and create a new file under conf.d named redirect.conf. Add the following configuration to the file, save it and restart nginx.

server {
       listen *:80 default_server;
       access_log /var/log/nginx/redirect.access_log main;
       error_log /var/log/nginx/redirect.error_log info;
       location / {
         rewrite ^ https://$host$request_uri? permanent;
       }
}