http to https rewrite, non-standard port?

[Igor Sysoev]

On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 11:47:10AM +0000, John Moore wrote:

> I want to rewrite all http requests for a host to https, on port 9443 
> instead of the the standard 443. So I have this in my nginx.conf:
> 
>   server {
>           server_name www.domain.com;
>           listen 80;
>           location / {
>              rewrite  ^(.*)$ https://$host:9443$1 permanent;
>           }
> }
> 
>   server {
>           server_name www.domain.com;
>           listen 9443;
>           location / {
>              #etc...
>           }
> }
> 
> 
> And as long as I use 'http://www.domain.com', the rewrite works fine. 
> But some URLS are coming back now as 'http://www.domain.com:9443' and 
> I'm running into the 400 error"The plain HTTP request was sent to HTTPS 
> port", for obvious reasons. So how do I get it to rewrite 'http://' to 
> 'https://' as well, which is what I presume I need to do?

error_page  497  https://$host:9443$request_uri;


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