Nginx / Forge: should not redirect to https from http

Hi guys,

A little unusual situation here, I guess. Which is why I was not able to find the answer online (yet).

I am working on a redirect application. I have added an SSL certificate with Forge and that all works fine. I just found that there is a step in the middle that I want to remove.

Right now what happens is: http://old.com >301> https://old.com >301> https://new.com What I would like is http://old.com >301> https://new.com

I tried creating two server blocks, one for port 80 and one for 443, where the port 80 one did not have the SSL settings. But that did not make a difference.

Any help or advise is very much appreciated!

• Frank

My nginx config is:

# FORGE CONFIG (DO NOT REMOVE!)
include forge-conf/mydomain.com/before/*;

server {
    listen 80 default_server;
    listen [::]:80 default_server;
    listen 443 ssl default_server;
    listen [::]:443 ssl default_server;
    
    server_name _;
    root /home/forge/mydomain.com/public;

    # FORGE SSL (DO NOT REMOVE!)
    ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/ssl/mydomain.com/466676/server.crt;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/ssl/mydomain.com/466676/server.key;

    ssl_protocols TLSv1.2;
    ssl_ciphers ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA512:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA512:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384;
    ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
    ssl_dhparam /etc/nginx/dhparams.pem;

    add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN";
    add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block";
    add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff";

    index index.html index.htm index.php;

    charset utf-8;

    # FORGE CONFIG (DO NOT REMOVE!)
    include forge-conf/mydomain.com/server/*;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
    }

    location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
    location = /robots.txt  { access_log off; log_not_found off; }

    access_log off;
    error_log  /var/log/nginx/mydomain.com-error.log error;

    error_page 404 /index.php;

    location ~ \.php$ {
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        include fastcgi_params;
    }

    location ~ /\.(?!well-known).* {
        deny all;
    }
}

# FORGE CONFIG (DO NOT REMOVE!)
include forge-conf/mydomain.com/after/*;