With nginx my https site works but http does not

Hi there,

I'm sure there are many ways to accomplish this, but in my experience the easiest way to set up this type of redirect is to have two separate server blocks. One for your port 80 which just redirects to https, and then all of your other setup stays in your 443 block. Here is an example of what that might look like:

server {
    listen 80 default_server;
    listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;
    server_name example.com;
    return 301 https://example.com$request_uri;
}

server {
    listen   443;

    ssl    on;
    ssl_certificate    /home/forge/certs/example/example.com.pem;
    ssl_certificate_key    /home/forge/certs/example/example.com.key;

    root /home/forge/example.com/public;
    index index.php index.html index.htm;

    server_name example.com;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        try_files $uri /index.php =404;
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include fastcgi_params;
    }
}