How to redirect EC2 Elastic Load Balancer from HTTP to HTTPS

Question

Hi Guys,

I am new to the AWS ELB service. I want to redirect all the HTTP requests to the https request on ELB. I have two EC2 instances. I am using Nginx for the server. How can I do that?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

AWS Application Load Balancers now support native HTTP to HTTPS redirect. To enable this in the console, do the following steps.

1. Go to your Load Balancer in EC2 and tab "Listeners"

2. Select "View/edit rules" on your HTTP listener

3. Delete all rules except for the default one (bottom)

4. Edit default rule: choose "Redirect to" as an action, leave everything as default and enter "443" as a port.