Nginx https only for the index page

Hello,

Im trying to run https only for the index page,

basically what im trying to achieve is when a user goes to the site they are taken to the https version, however, I dont want a 300 series redirect where its forced on all the site, just the index.

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The reason why i want to do this is that Im going to be running a url shortening service and many ads etc wont work on https, the sites already setup to generate the short links as http, and that's why if I force a redirect to https then itll affect those links as well

i tried this in the ssl conf

Code:

  # Single URL
  location = /index.php {
    # plus other PHP settings and parameters
    fastcgi_pass php;
    include fastcgi_params;
    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
  }

  # Every other URL
  location / {
    return 301 http://www.example.com$request_uri;
  }

and this in the non ssl conf

Code:

 location = /index.php {
    return 301 https://www.example.com/index.php;

but i just get errors

im running a self-signed ssl cert and not forces https throughout the site at the time, so i have a .ssl.conf and a .conf for the domain

id rather not have to use a meta redirect on the index page as this is definitely doable from nginx, and I searched through google and its as if no one has done this before,

any help would be greatly appreciated

 

Interesting that seems to force the whole site to https, but i wonder if that's because the site goes through the index using args

 

no not enabled at all, if i remove

location ~ ^/(index\.php) {
return 302 https://$server_name$request_uri;
}

the site goes back to full http only, although https will work if someone manually changes the url to it which is fine.

its just the index page only that i want to change

 

so i was right about the index args thing, found a solution though,

changed my cloudflare ssl to flexible (forced ssl and hsts already off there) and created a page rule and works like a charm
thanks for your help again @eva2000, your solution does work but not in my case as all the pages go through index as args

 

its the weird way my script works, faq page for ex is http://domain.com/index.php?p=faq, so the rule auto thinks, thats the index

 

thats weird, errors out saying too many redirects

 

ya same issue with the too many redirects

 

really?

but my login page is behind ssl setup as a cloudflare rule,

and pretty much the whole site is now ssl except for generated shortlink urls.

i hope google wont penalize me because im basically not using a 300series redirect to explicitly force the whole site into https

 

Google's getting too big, they own more satellites than most countries, they make more money than many countries, and at this point they may as well claim that they own the internet

 

No wonder China blocks google, best decision a government can make to ensure their own autonomy online. Who wants a company from overseas with likely links to their government to tell another government what they can and cant do online as well as set and enforce standards.

 

Thanks @eva2000, looks like im safe as my login page is https