Force www. and https in nginx.conf (SSL)

Question

After purchasing a SSL certificate I have been trying to force all pages to secured https and to www.

https://www.exampl.com is working and secure but only if type it i

Answer 1

If you have a sites-enabled directory, do not use the "http" top directive. Just create another file (with any name) in the site-enabled directory that has:

server {
    listen      80;   #listen for all the HTTP requests
    server_name example.com www.example.com;
    return      301         https://www.example.com$request_uri;
}

and comment out the line

listen 80; 

where the server_name is the same in the other file that serves www.example.com