redirectHttps.md

Redirecting traffic from Http to Https:

If you don't have an SSL certificate for your domain, you can request one from the certificate manager in the AWS console. There are a lot of tutorials so I won't be doing it

Chances are that you don't want your users to connect through HTTP you instead want them to be connected using HTTPS:

So for that go to EC2 console then in the left nav panel scroll down to load balancer -> click on listeners tab

If you don't see HTTPS:443 under listeners then click on "add listeners"

then under protocol click on HTTPS port no 443: Then under default action dropdown click on "forward" to: select your target group where your EC2 resides.

Now scroll down and select your SSL certificate:

and click on "add"

Now go to listeners and select the HTTP listener and click on edit:

From the "Default action" drop-down select "Redirect" to -> select HTTPS protocol and port 443 then save changes.

That's it save the changes and now all http protocols will be redirected to https.

Additional information

Additionally for django users, you can also set SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT=True in settings.py to redirect http to https connections.

reference: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/topics/security/#ssl-https