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

It would also be more of an NGINX best practice to do a 301 redirect instead of using the if statement (see Server name on http://wiki.nginx.org/Pitfalls). I created a gist with an nginx.conf configured for SSL, Rails and Unicorn

https://gist.github.com/Austio/6399964

Here would be the relevant section for yours.

server {
    listen      80;
    server_name domain.com;
    return 301  https://$host$request_uri;
}