Nginx configuration leads to endless redirect loop

Question

So I\'ve looked at every sample configuration I could find and yet every time I try and view a page that requires ssl, I end up in an redirect loop. I\'m running nginx/0.8.5

Answer 1

In case someone else stumbles on this, I was attempting to configure both http and https via the same server {} block, but only added the "listen 443" directive believing that the "this line is default and implied" meant that it would also listen on 80 as well, it didn't. Uncommenting the "listen 80" line so that both listen lines were present corrected the infinite loop. No idea why it would have even been getting a redirect at all, but it did.