I apologize if this seems like a deja vu. There are plenty of posts about similar issues, and I read them all (and tried them out unsuccessfully).
My setup: Rails 4, Puma, Nginx, SSL Cert for both https://www and https://
I am using a combined block so I get a redirect to SSL. However, I would like to redirect https://www.domain.com to https://domain.com Everything works fine with the setup you will see below until I add the redirect rule (return 301 https://$host$request_uri;), then I get a redirect loop.
I added "proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;" to my @app location for force_ssl (which is set to true in the Rails config file), but that did not solve the issue.
I would really appreciate expert advise here, and please, if you see any points of improvement in my setup, beyond just fixing the redirect loop, please let me know.
nginx.conf:
user root;
worker_processes 4;
pid /var/run/nginx.pid;
#setup where nginx will log errors to
# and where the nginx process id resides
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log error;
#pid /var/run/nginx.pid;
events {
worker_connections 1024;
accept_mutex off;
use epoll;
}
http {
include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
types_hash_max_size 2048;
default_type application/octet-stream;
#access_log /tmp/nginx.access.log combined;
# use the kernel sendfile
sendfile on;
# prepend http headers before sendfile()
tcp_nopush on;
keepalive_timeout 25;
tcp_nodelay on;
gzip on;
gzip_http_version 1.0;
gzip_proxied any;
gzip_min_length 500;
gzip_disable "MSIE [1-6]\.";
gzip_types text/plain text/html text/xml text/css
text/comma-separated-values
text/javascript application/x-javascript
application/atom+xml;
#Hide server info
server_tokens off;
upstream app_server {
server unix:/root/sites/mina_deploy/shared/tmp/sockets/puma.sock
fail_timeout=0;
}
# configure the virtual host
server {
server_name domain.com www.domain.com 162.555.555.162;
root /root/sites/mina_deploy/current/public;
# port to listen for requests on
listen 80 default deferred;
listen 443 ssl;
####### THIS REDIRECT CAUSES A LOOP ########
#return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
ssl_certificate /etc/ssl/ssl-bundle.crt;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/ssl/myserver.key;
#enables all versions of TLS, but not SSLv2 or 3 which are weak and now deprecated.
ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
#Disables all weak ciphers
ssl_ciphers 'AES128+EECDH:AES128+EDH';
ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:10m;
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
ssl_dhparam /etc/ssl/dhparam.pem;
# maximum accepted body size of client request
client_max_body_size 4G;
# the server will close connections after this time
keepalive_timeout 5;
add_header Strict-Transport-Security max-age=63072000;
#add_header X-Frame-Options DENY;
add_header Access-Control-Allow-Origin '*';
add_header X-Content-Type-Options nosniff;
ssl_stapling on;
ssl_stapling_verify on;
resolver 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4 valid=300s;
resolver_timeout 5s;
location ~ ^/(system|assets)/ {
gzip_static on;
error_page 405 = $uri;
expires max;
add_header Cache-Control public;
break;
}
try_files $uri/index.html $uri @app;
location @app {
# pass to the upstream unicorn server mentioned above
proxy_pass http://app_server;
proxy_redirect off;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
proxy_read_timeout 300;
}
}
}