how to make AWS api gateway accept http instead of https

Question

I have a Lambda function proxied by API Gateway. However, API Gateway only expose https and not http. I searched everywhere but looks like API Gateway is not po

Answer 1

I recently had a 4 hour long phone call with an AWS representative about a similar problem we had in production stage. My situation was similar, there was nothing we could change in APIGateway to fix it (the rep tried all kinds of tricks, but nothing seemed working). So our conclusion was to spin up an EC2 instance as a proxy server for APIGateway and forward all the traffic. There was some additional work such as transferring the domain name, but overall it worked just fine. In your case, as you only need to redirect HTTP traffic, a simple ElasticBeanstalk proxy app might be enough (EB uses HTTP by default and is behind a Nginx proxy server).