How do I redirect https:// requests to http:// in NGINX?

Question

Is there a way to redirect https:// requests to http:// by adding a rule in the domain's vhost file? I'm using NGINX.

Answer 1

Why is something like that useful? At first look I wasn't sure if it could be done. But it presented an interesting question.

You might try putting a redirect statement in your config file and restarting your server. Two possibilities might happen:

1. The server will issue the redirect - what you seem to want.
2. The server will first do the https exchange, and THEN issue the redirect, in which case, what's the point?

Will add more if I come up with something more concrete.

UPDATE: (couple of hours later) You could try this. You need to put this in your nginx.conf file -

server {
       listen 443;
       server_name _ *;
       rewrite ^(.*) http://$host$1 permanent;
 }

Sends a permanent redirect to the client. I am assuming you are using port 443 (default) for https.

server {
    listen      80;
    server_name _ *;
    ...
}

Add this so that your normal http requests on port 80 are undisturbed.

Answer 2

location / {
    if ($scheme = https) {
        rewrite ^(.*)? http://$http_host$1 permanent;
    }
}

Answer 3

The only simple rule is already explained on the post above me:

server {
listen ip:443;
server_name www.example.com;
rewrite ^(.*) http://$host$1 permanent;
}

or if you want it to be a single line:

server { listen ip:443; server_name www.example.com; rewrite ^(.*) http://$host$1 permanent;}