I have a Google App Engine project. On this project I have setup a custom domain and an SSL certificate. Therefore, I can use https://www.mysite.xxx
, http://www.mysite.xxx
and just the naked domain mysite.xxx
.
Is it possible to permanently redirect the last two to always use the secure https://
domain using the developers console or do I just have to redirect in the code?
So you can add "secure: always" to your yaml file
https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/config/appconfig?hl=en#Python_app_yaml_Secure_URLs
For the sake of completeness. The Java way is to set the transport guarantee to confidential like this.
<security-constraint>
<web-resource-collection>
<web-resource-name>profile</web-resource-name>
<url-pattern>/profile/*</url-pattern>
</web-resource-collection>
<user-data-constraint>
<transport-guarantee>CONFIDENTIAL</transport-guarantee>
</user-data-constraint>
</security-constraint>
You can also find this here in the documentation.
(For Node at least,) in your app.yaml, add the following:
handlers:
- url: /.*
secure: always
redirect_http_response_code: 301
script: auto
Reference: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/nodejs/config/appref
Just in case, it is not possible to include secure handlers in app.yaml on App Engine Flexible, there isn't support for them:
The secure setting under handlers is now deprecated for the App Engine flexible environment. If you need SSL redirection, you can update your application code and use the X-Forwarded-Proto header to redirect http traffic. (Reference: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible/java/upgrading#appyaml_changes)
The reference is from Java, but it seems to be the same for Node. I've tried to include handlers and it didn't work.
As you can see, a possible solution would be to "use X-Forwarded-Proto header to redirect http traffic". I haven't tried this because I will move to App Engine Standard, but someone has done it and explained here.
It should be done in your application. Please check this post https://stackoverflow.com/a/54289378/5293578
I've tried the following code and it worked for me (You must put this before the default request and error handler):
/**==== File: server.js =======**/
/** Express configuration **/
// HTTPS Redirection
if (process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production') {
app.use (function (req, res, next) {
var schema = (req.headers['x-forwarded-proto'] || '').toLowerCase();
if (schema === 'https') {
next();
} else {
res.redirect('https://' + req.headers.host + req.url);
}
});
}
/** ... more configuration **/
// Default request handler
app.use(function(req, res, next) {
// ... your code
});
// Default error handler
app.use(function(err, req, res, next) {
// ... your code
});