Too many redirects error while trying to configure rails application as SSL using nginx and unicorn

Question

I am trying to configure a Rails application with SSL, using Nginx and Unicorn. I am trying to set it up locally. For that I first created a self-signed certificate using OpenS

Answer 1

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Try changing 'rewrite ^/(.*) http://...' to 'rewrite ^/(.*) https://...' and remove listen 80 from the 2nd server block

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