Dealing with nginx 400 “The plain HTTP request was sent to HTTPS port” error

Question

I\'m running a Sinatra app behind passenger/nginx. I\'m trying to get it to respond to both http and https calls. The problem is, when both are defined in the server block h

Answer 1

I ran into a similar problem. It works on one server and does not on another server with same Nginx configuration. Found the the solution which is answered by Igor here http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,1612,1627#msg-1627

Yes. Or you may combine SSL/non-SSL servers in one server:

server {
  listen 80;
  listen 443 default ssl;

  # ssl on   - remember to comment this out

}