Forwarding http to https in node.js express app using EBS & ELB environment

Question

I am using the following to redirect all http requests to https requests.

I can see from logs that the header \'x-forwarded-proto\' is never populated and is undefin

Answer 1

You can edit the nginx config file in the EC2 instance. SSH to ec2 instance and follow the following steps

1. go to /etc/nginx/conf.d
2. open 00_elastic_beanstalk_proxy.conf sudo vi 00_elastic_beanstalk_proxy.conf

3. put

   location / { if ($http_x_forwarded_proto != 'https') { rewrite ^ https://$host$request_uri? permanent; } … }

4. reload nginx sudo /usr/sbin/nginx -s reload