Dealing with nginx 400 “The plain HTTP request was sent to HTTPS port” error

Question

I\'m running a Sinatra app behind passenger/nginx. I\'m trying to get it to respond to both http and https calls. The problem is, when both are defined in the server block h

Answer 1

I ran into a similar problem. It works on one server and does not on another server with same Nginx configuration. Found the the solution which is answered by Igor here http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,1612,1627#msg-1627

Yes. Or you may combine SSL/non-SSL servers in one server:

server {
  listen 80;
  listen 443 default ssl;

  # ssl on   - remember to comment this out

}

Answer 2

Here is an example to config HTTP and HTTPS in same config block with ipv6 support. The config is tested in Ubuntu Server and NGINX/1.4.6 but this should work with all servers.

server {
    # support http and ipv6
    listen 80 default_server;
    listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;

    # support https and ipv6
    listen 443 default_server ssl;
    listen [::]:443 ipv6only=on default_server ssl;

    # path to web directory
    root /path/to/example.com;
    index index.html index.htm;

    # domain or subdomain
    server_name example.com www.example.com;

    # ssl certificate
    ssl_certificate /path/to/certs/example_com-bundle.crt;
    ssl_certificate_key /path/to/certs/example_com.key;

    ssl_session_timeout 5m;

    ssl_protocols SSLv3 TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
    ssl_ciphers "HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5 or HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5:!3DES";
    ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
}

Don't include ssl on which may cause 400 error. The config above should work for

http://example.com

http://www.example.com

https://example.com

https://www.example.com

Hope this helps!