http to https rewrite, non-standard port?

[Igor Sysoev]

On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 04:20:39AM -0400, Quincy wrote:
> I have the same problem. I can't redirect http to https. Here is my
> config:
> 
> server {
>   listen 2121;
>   server_name XXXXX;
>   ssl on;
>   ssl_certificate XXt;
>   ssl_certificate_key XX;
>   #server_name _;
>   server_name_in_redirect off;
>   port_in_redirect off;
> 
>   root XXX;
> 
>   location / {
>     index index.php;
>     error_page 404 = @mediawiki;
>     error_page 497 = @https;
>     #error_page 400 = @https;
>     error_page 400 https://$host:2121$request_uri;
>     auth_basic            "Restricted";
>     auth_basic_user_file  XXXX;
>   }
> 
>   location @mediawiki {
>     rewrite ^/([^?]*)(?:\?(.*))? /index.php?title=$1&$2 last;
>   }
> 
>   location @https {
>     rewrite ^ https://$host:2121$request_uri? permanent;
>   }
> 
>   location ~ \.php$ {
>     fastcgi_param  QUERY_STRING       $query_string;
>     fastcgi_param  REQUEST_METHOD     $request_method;
>     fastcgi_param  CONTENT_TYPE       $content_type;
>     fastcgi_param  CONTENT_LENGTH     $content_length;
>     fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_NAME        $fastcgi_script_name;
>     fastcgi_param  REQUEST_URI        $request_uri;
>     fastcgi_param  DOCUMENT_URI       $document_uri;
>     fastcgi_param  DOCUMENT_ROOT      $document_root;
>     fastcgi_param  SERVER_PROTOCOL    $server_protocol;
>     fastcgi_param  GATEWAY_INTERFACE  CGI/1.1;
>     fastcgi_param  SERVER_SOFTWARE    nginx/$nginx_version;
>     fastcgi_param  REMOTE_ADDR        $remote_addr;
>     fastcgi_param  REMOTE_PORT        $remote_port;
>     fastcgi_param  SERVER_ADDR        $server_addr;
>     fastcgi_param  SERVER_PORT        $server_port;
>     fastcgi_param  SERVER_NAME        $server_name;
> 
> # PHP only, required if PHP was built with --enable-force-cgi-redirect
>     fastcgi_param  REDIRECT_STATUS    200;   
> 
>     fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
>     fastcgi_index  index.php;
>     fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  XXXX/$fastcgi_script_name;
>     fastcgi_param  HTTPS              on;
>   }
> 
> 
> }
> 
> Https is working flawlessly, but when I try http I get an error (400 Bad
> Request
> 
> The plain HTTP request was sent to HTTPS port
> nginx/1.0.5) instead of redirect.

As Maxim already said, you should handle 497 error on server level.
Besides, you may set URL to redirect in error_page directive:

-     error_page 497 = @https;
+     error_page 497 https://$host:2121$request_uri;


-- 
Igor Sysoev