How to redirect www to non-www and http to https in Elasticbeanstalk (nginx server)

Question

I use Elasticbeanstalk (nginx server) with Load Balancer and Route 53.

Successfully: able to redirect http:// to https:// using the following code/configuration.

Failed: to redirect http://www. and https://www. to https:// (without www).

I noticed www doesn't work at all (can’t connect to the server).

What I am doing wrong? Did I missed something with say Route 53?

Or how I can redirect http://www.domian, https://www.domian, and http://domian to https://domian?

Update: I managed to make www. work using this solution Must use www for DNS entry using Amazon Route53

But still don't know how to do all the redirects.

Code/configuration:

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###################################################################################################
#### This configuration file configures Nginx for Node.js environments to redirect HTTP
#### requests on port 80 to HTTPS on port 443 after you have configured your environment to support
#### HTTPS connections:
####
#### Configuring Your Elastic Beanstalk Environment's Load Balancer to Terminate HTTPS:
####  http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/configuring-https-elb.html
####
#### Terminating HTTPS on EC2 Instances Running Node.js:
####  http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/https-singleinstance-nodejs.html
###################################################################################################

files:
   /etc/nginx/conf.d/proxy.conf:
     owner: root
     group: root
     mode: "000644"
     content: |
       # Elastic Beanstalk Managed

       # Elastic Beanstalk managed configuration file
       # Some configuration of nginx can be by placing files in /etc/nginx/conf.d
       # using Configuration Files.
       # http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/customize-containers.html 


       upstream nodejs {
           server 127.0.0.1:8081;
           keepalive 256;
       }

       server {
           listen 8080;


           if ($time_iso8601 ~ "^(\d{4})-(\d{2})-(\d{2})T(\d{2})") {
               set $year $1;
               set $month $2;
               set $day $3;
               set $hour $4;
           }
           access_log /var/log/nginx/healthd/application.log.$year-$month-$day-$hour healthd;
           access_log  /var/log/nginx/access.log  main;


           location / {
               set $redirect 0;
               if ($http_x_forwarded_proto != "https") {
                 set $redirect 1;
               }
               if ($http_user_agent ~* "ELB-HealthChecker") {
                 set $redirect 0;
               }
               if ($redirect = 1) {
                 return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
               }

               proxy_pass  http://nodejs;
               proxy_set_header   Connection "";
               proxy_http_version 1.1;
               proxy_set_header        Host            $host;
               proxy_set_header        X-Real-IP       $remote_addr;
               proxy_set_header        X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
           }

       gzip on;
       gzip_comp_level 4;
       gzip_types text/html text/plain text/css application/json application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;

       }

   /opt/elasticbeanstalk/hooks/configdeploy/post/99_kill_default_nginx.sh:
     owner: root
     group: root
     mode: "000755"
     content: |
       #!/bin/bash -xe
       rm -f /etc/nginx/conf.d/00_elastic_beanstalk_proxy.conf
       if [[ -e /etc/init/nginx.conf ]] ; then
         echo Using initctl to stop and start nginx
         initctl stop nginx || true
         initctl start nginx
       else
         echo Using service to stop and start nginx
         service nginx stop 
         service nginx start
       fi

container_commands:
  removeconfig:
    command: "rm -f /tmp/deployment/config/#etc#nginx#conf.d#00_elastic_beanstalk_proxy.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d/00_elastic_beanstalk_proxy.conf"

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 22 '20 at 09:31

This works perfectly:

Add both www and non-www A pointers in Route 53 to EBS. Make sure your SSL certificate is for both www and non-www. Use the wizard mode to more easily select your EBS environment.
Redirect http traffic to https on your load balancer

Add the entry below to your nginx.conf file

server {
  listen 80;
  server_name www.example.com;

  return 301 https://example.com$request_uri;
}

How to redirect www to non-www and http to https in Elasticbeanstalk (nginx server)

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