Nginx – The Best Way to Force Redirect to HTTPS with WWW URL

Questions- How do I force redirect users to https with www prefix domain. How do I redirect a user to https in Nginx? The Best Way to Force Redirect Users to WWW and HTTPS.

This tutorial will provide you the best way to redirect users forcefully to https:// URL with www domain prefix. For example, your domain name is example.com, Below configuration will forcefully redirect users to https://www.example.com in all way.

Let’s edit Nginx virtual host configuration file and add below content. change example.com with your actual domain name. Also, add any other required settings specific for you Virtual host.

# Force all users to https://www.example.com

server {
    listen 		80;
    server_name example.com www.example.com;

    return 301 https://www.example.com$request_uri;
}
server {
    listen 443 ssl;
    server_name example.com;

    ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/ssl/www.example.com.pem;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/ssl/www.example.com.key;

    return 301 https://www.example.com$request_uri;
}

server {
    listen 	443 ssl;
    server_name www.example.com;
    root 	/var/www/html
	
    error_page  403 /error/404.html;
    error_page  404 /error/404.html;
    error_page  500 502 503 504 /error/50x.html;

    ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/ssl/www.example.com.pem;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/ssl/www.example.com.key;
}

After making the change to the configuration file, restart your Nginx server and try to access your domain like URLs. In all conditions, it will be redirected to https://www.example.com.

http://example.com
http://www.example.com
https://example.com