question regarding rewrite from http to https

[Mansoor Peerbhoy]

Hello,

I am using NGINX as an HTTP proxy, and in some cases, I need to rewrite all requests from http:// to https://
My proxy configuration has two server {} blocks, one with http, and one with https

So if my sample configuration looks like: (assume proxy server name is proxy.com)

server
{
  listen 80;
  location /
  {
    rewrite ^/(.*)$ https://proxy.com/$1;
  }
}

server 
{
  listen 443;
  ...
}

In this case, I think there is a problem with the regex substitution, because I get a line like:

2008/05/31 15:10:11 [error] 5802#0: *1 rewrite or internal redirection cycle while processing "https://proxy.comhttps://proxy.comhttps://proxy.comhttps://proxy.comhttps://proxy.comhttps://proxy.comhttps://proxy.comhttps://proxy.comhttps://proxy.comhttps://proxy.comhttps://proxy.com/", client: 192.168.159.1, server: proxy.com, request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", host: "proxy.com"
2008/05/31 15:10:11 [debug] 5802#0: *1 http finalize request: 500, "https://proxy.comhttps://proxy.comhttps://proxy.comhttps://proxy.comhttps://proxy.comhttps://proxy.comhttps://proxy.comhttps://proxy.comhttps://proxy.comhttps://proxy.comhttps://proxy.com/?"
2008/05/31 15:10:11 [debug] 5802#0: *1 http special response: 500, "https://proxy.comhttps://proxy.comhttps://proxy.comhttps://proxy.comhttps://proxy.comhttps://proxy.comhttps://proxy.comhttps://proxy.comhttps://proxy.comhttps://proxy.comhttps://proxy.com/?"
2008/05/31 15:10:11 [debug] 5802#0: *1 http set discard body
2008/05/31 15:10:11 [debug] 5802#0: *1 HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error
Server: nginx/0.7.1
Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 09:40:11 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 192
Connection: close

I've tested this with nginx 0.7.1

Any help here would be appreciated

Regards,
Mansoor Peerbhoy

PS: The redirection works when I use http instead of https

rewrite ^/(.*)$ http://proxy.com/$1;