Redirecting to SSL using nginx

Question

I have http:// and https:// on the same host like the following:

server {

    listen   80;
    listen   443 ssl;

    ...
    ...
}

What I

Answer 1

In order to use regular expressions for matching locations, you need to prefix the expression with either ~ or ~*:

if ($server_port = 80) {
    location ~ (en|fr)/shop {
        rewrite ^ https://$host$request_uri permanent;
    }
}

From the documentation:

To use regular expressions, you must use a prefix:

1. "~" for case sensitive matching
2. "~*" for case insensitive matching

Since nginx does't allow location blocks to be nested inside of if blocks, try the following configuration:

if ($server_port = 80) {
    rewrite ^/(en|fr)/shop https://$host$request_uri permanent;
}