[How-To] Automatically redirect http to https when using PHP-FPM + Nginx

[SoftCreatR]

Hello,

just because i had this problem, i'm posting it here:

I've set "Process PHP by nginx" for one of my domains. From this point, the usual htaccess rules are not longer working. This includes the possibility to automatically redirect your visitors to the ssl secured version of your website (https). Forcing this behavior manually by adding specific rules to the nginx configuration can be a pain in the ***.

Instead, there's a "limited" way to add "Additional nginx directives". Now, if you want to automatically redirect your users to https://yoursite.tld, just insert the following directive:

if ($scheme !~* ^https ){
    rewrite ^ https://$server_name$request_uri? permanent;
}

Works fine for me, but if there's a better way... Just let us know

Regards,
SoftCreatR