Nginx certbot and redirect http

[oscarson]

My domain is: fdm.niradynamics.se

My web server is (include version): nginx 17

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): Debian 9

Hi!

I want ngnix to redirect http to https. To accomplish this I have added the following to my nginx config:

server {
    # Redirect http to https.
    listen 80 default_server;

    server_name _;

    return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
}

which works well. But when using “certbot --nginx”, the config is updated (added to my main server block: listen 80; # managed by Certbot). Thus the redirect no longer works. Is there an easy fix to this?

EDIT: I could do something like this: sed -i '/listen 80; # managed by Certbot/d' /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf. But I’m not sure if certbot will update the config again in its cron-job.

Thanks in advance!

[JuergenAuer]

Hi @oscarson

@oscarson

server_name _;

perhaps it's easier if you create an explicit vHost with

server_name fdm.niradynamics.se;

Or you remove the redirect and use

--redirect            Automatically redirect all HTTP traffic to HTTPS for
                        the newly authenticated vhost. (default: Ask)

So Certbot creates the own solution.

[oscarson]

Thanks! The --redirect options works great. I removed the server block which I had in my config, was added by certbot.