How can i forcefully redirect http request to https in passenger standalone with aws elastic load balancer?

Question

I used passenger standalone for my app. currently my app is running on both http and https . i want to redirect all http request to https. I used load balancer in my application. I read this articles

https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/redirect-http-https-elb/

https://www.phusionpassenger.com/library/config/standalone/intro.html#nginx-configuration-template

http://code.eklund.io/blog/2015/03/17/managing-rewrites-for-a-rails-app-on-heroku-with-nginx-plus-phusion-passenger/

i tried this 2 methods

1)

 if ($http_x_forwarded_proto = "http") { 
            return 301 https://$host$request_uri; 
        }

2)

if ($http_x_forwarded_proto != "https") {
      rewrite ^(.*)$ https://$server_name$REQUEST_URI permanent;
  }

i tried all process in same way. but every time it goes in to infinite loop and before i start passenger the instance terminate itself and create new instance because of too many request timeout.

I can't figure out, whether it is issue of elastic load balancer or passenger config. I think when i stop passenger and user try to access app. the request time out generated and due to that new instance created. i am not sure.

Thanks in advance :)

Answer 1

I hope your all certificates are installed correctly and pointing to the right path. If not check the below configuration

Passenger.json

{
  "environment": "production",
  "instance_registry_dir": "/var/run/passenger-instreg",
  "daemonize": true,
  "user": "myappuser",
  "port": 443,
  "ssl": true,
  "ssl_certificate": "/path/to/ssl_cert.pem",
  "ssl_certificate_key": "/path/to/ssl_key.pem",
  "nginx_config_template": "/path/to/nginx.conf.erb"
}

You need to use the same configuration which you use for nginx for redirecting from http to https

http {
     server_tokens off;
        server {
            listen 80 default_server;
            listen [::]:80 default_server;

            # Redirect all HTTP requests to HTTPS with a 301 Moved Permanently response.
             return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
     }

Latest Link
Here is the configuration of standalone passenger to redirect from http to https latest_link

Please refer this link

Answer 2

You can do this at the proxy level, or at the app level. To do it at the app level:

# config/environments/production.rb
...
config.force_ssl = true
...