Question

I have Nginx in front of a Node.js app. I have it set up so that if the url has /account in it, it’ll redirect to HTTPS. My question is – how do I set it up so that if the user leaves the /account url (clicks a link to go to the home page), it’ll get sent back to HTTP?

Here’s my ngnix.conf:

worker_processes  1;

error_log  logs/error.log;

pid        logs/nginx.pid;

events {
    worker_connections  128;
}

http {
    include       mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;

    sendfile        on;

    server_tokens off;

    #keepalive_timeout  0;
    keepalive_timeout  65;
    tcp_nodelay        on;
    proxy_buffer_size   128k;
    proxy_buffers   4 256k;
    proxy_busy_buffers_size   256k;

    gzip  on;

    server {
        listen       80;
        server_name  localhost;

        location / {
            proxy_set_header x-path $uri;
            proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
            proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
            proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
            proxy_set_header X-NginX-Proxy true;
            proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3000;
            proxy_redirect off;
        }

        location /account {
          rewrite ^(.*) https://$host$1 permanent; #redirect to https
        }

        error_page  404              /404.html;

        # redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
        #
        error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
        location = /50x.html {
            root   html;
        }

    }

    server {
        listen 443;
        ssl on;

        ssl_certificate ssl/server.crt;
        ssl_certificate_key ssl/server.key;

        location / {
            proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
            proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
            proxy_set_header X-M-Secure "true";
            proxy_redirect off;
            proxy_max_temp_file_size 0;
            proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3000;
        }
    }
}

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Answer 1

This is untested.

server {
    listen 443;
    ssl on;

    ssl_certificate ssl/server.crt;
    ssl_certificate_key ssl/server.key;

    location /account/ {
        proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header X-M-Secure "true";
        proxy_redirect off;
        proxy_max_temp_file_size 0;
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3000;
    }

    location / {
        rewrite ^(.*) http://$host$1 permanent; # redirect to http
    }
}