Nginx on SSL (443) - ssl

Question

My goal is to redirect from port 80 to 443 (force https), but can't manage to get a working https configuration first. I get a 503 Server Error and nothing appears in the logs. I've looked at all the posts on SO and SF, none of them worked (X_FORWARDED_PROTO, X-Forwarded-For headers don't make a difference.). I'm on EC2 behind a load balancer, and so I don't need to use the SSL-related directives as I've configured my certificate on the ELB already. I'm using Tornado for a web server.
Here's the config, if anyone has ideas, thank you!
http {
# Tornado server
upstream frontends {
server 127.0.0.1:8002;
}
server {
listen 443;
client_max_body_size 50M;
root <redacted>/static;
location ^~/static/ {
root <redacted>/current;
if ($query_string) {
expires max;
}
}
location / {
proxy_pass_header Server;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_redirect off;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Scheme $scheme;
proxy_pass http://frontends;
}
}
}

Answer 1

Well, there are two different tasks:
If you need to redirect all your http traffic to https, you'll need to create http server in nginx:
server {
listen 80;
server_name example.com;
return 301 https://example.com$request_uri;
}
Second note, if your SSL is terminated at ELB than you dont need ssl enabled nginx server at all. Simply pass traffic from ELB to your server 80 port.