Rewrite a http request to https with nginx

If you have a web server running nginx that accepts both http and https connections, there may be times where you want to prevent anyone from accessing a specific page/url using a insecure http connection. For example, login or registration pages. You always want these to be secure if you can. Add the following into the main “location /” block, located in the http “server” section in your nginx configuration file for your site. if ($request_uri ~* "/login.php") { rewrite…

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