Nginx redirect url to secure domain

Question

My webstie is hosted on aws EC2 instance and I have nginx 1.12.2 and Ec2 Operating system is centos, how do I redirect http://example.com and https://example.com to https://www.example.com .

Thanks

Answer 1

You will need 3 server sections (and I'm almost sure you forgot to handle http://www.example.com case)

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name example.com; 
    location / {
             return 301 https://www.example.com$request_uri;
           }
...

server {
    listen 443 ssl; 
    server_name example.com;
    ssl_certificate ...
    location / {
             return 301 https://www.example.com$request_uri;
           }
...

server {
    listen 443 ssl; 
    server_name www.example.com;
    ssl_certificate ...
    location / {
             #your configuration here
           }
...