http -> https redirection, with a twist?

[Brad Knowles]

On Feb 28, 2012, at 9:42 PM, António P. P. Almeida wrote:

> Then just define two server blocks. One redirects to 443 and the other
> to 8443.

I didn't realize that you could have multiple server blocks that were listening to the same port.  That was the piece I was missing!

> Alternatively you could use map and a single server block. At the http
> level.
> 
> map $host $redirect_port {
>    hostnames;
>    default 443;
>    f.domain.com 8443; # this is the domain that redirects to 8443
> }
> 
> server {
>    server_name a.domain.com c.domain.com d.domain.com f.domain.com; # list all domains   
>    listen 80;
>    return 301 https://$host:$redirect_port$request_uri;
> }

Ahh, that's very cool, too.  Now I have two solutions for just the one problem.

Thanks!

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