无法使用EB单实例NodeJS NGINX Config将HTTP重定向到HTTPS

Question

I've been struggling all week trying to get http to https redirect working with elastic beanstalk's default single instance setup for nodejs while not behind a load balancer. I've created a .ebextensions/https-instance.config file (below) to setup https successfully and at the top have the port 80 redirect but it is not being recognized. The site still allows http.

Is there no way to do this redirect with the .ebextensions? Do I really have to ssh into the server and get the existing config file and then override the whole thing as shown here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/nodejs-platform-proxy.html ?

files:
  /etc/nginx/conf.d/http_custom_proxy.conf:
    mode: "000644"
    owner: root
    group: root
    content: |
      server {
        listen 80;
        return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
      }
  /etc/nginx/conf.d/https.conf:
     ...already working https code here

Answer 1

Try

files:
  "/etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl_rewrite.conf":
   mode: "000644"
   owner: ec2-user
   group: ec2-user
   content: |
       TraceEnable off
       RewriteEngine On
       <If "-n '%{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto}' && %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} != 'https'">
       RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L]
       </If>

Answer 2

For https, you should redirect to 443 port. that might be the problem