I have a website which should only be reachable over HTTPS except one URL-pattern (because I have on some pages http-iframe's and I would like to avoid security warnings)
E.g. this pages should be redirected to https:
http://example.com
http://example.com/a/this-is-an-article
http://example.com/v/this-is-a-video
This pages should not be redirected to https (or should be redirected form https to http)
http://example.com/l/page-with-unsafe-iframe
http://example.com/l/other-page-with-unsafe-iframe
If the iframe pages are always in the same directory, simple prefix locations could be used.
server {
listen 443;
location /l/ { # redirect https iframe requests to http server
return 301 http://$server_name$request_uri;
}
# ...
}
server {
listen 80;
location / { # the default location redirects to https
return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
}
location /l/ {} # do not redirect requests for iframe location
# ...
}
You may use map and simple redirect rules, for example:
map $uri $redirect_https {
/l/page-with-unsafe-iframe 0;
/l/other-page-with-unsafe-iframe 0; # you can use regex here
default 1;
}
server {
listen 443;
if ($redirect_https = 0) {
return 301 http://$server_name$request_uri;
}
# other code
}
server {
listen 80;
if ($redirect_https = 1) {
return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
}
# other code
}
I should mention that 301 redirect is a good practice unlike permanent rewrite.