Redirecting EC2 Elastic Load Balancer from HTTP to HTTPS
amazon-ec2, amazon-elb, https, nginx, redirect
Solution
AWS Application Load Balancers now support native HTTP to HTTPS redirect.
To enable this in the console, do the the following:
- Go to your Load Balancer in EC2 and tab "Listeners"
- Select "View/edit rules" on your HTTP listener
- Delete all rules except for the default one (bottom)
- Edit default rule: choose "Redirect to" as an action, leave everything as default and enter "443" as a port.
The same can be achieved by using the CLI as described here.
It is also possible to do this in Cloudformation, where you need to set up a Listener object like this:
HttpListener:
Type: AWS::ElasticLoadBalancingV2::Listener
Properties:
LoadBalancerArn: !Ref LoadBalancer
Port: 80
Protocol: HTTP
DefaultActions:
- Type: redirect
RedirectConfig:
Protocol: HTTPS
StatusCode: HTTP_301
Port: 443
If you still use Classic Load Balancers, go with one of the NGINX configs described by the others.
Problem
I want to redirect all the HTTP request to https request on ELB. I have two EC2 instances. I am using nginx for the server. I have tried a rewriting the nginx conf files without any success. I would love some advice on it.