I want to look for a feature on ALB AWS that can update http to https on its own just like in the NGINX load balancer , currently I have a website that uses wordpress but when using ALB, the website only shows text , is there another way to upgrade the url from http to https without having to edit the code?
Yes, you can redirect http to https as explained in AWS docs:
How can I redirect HTTP requests to HTTPS using an Application Load Balancer?
For that you need your own domain name. Once you have the domain you can the SSL certificate for HTTPS from Amazon Certificate Manager which you can deploy on your ALB.
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I have deployed an Angular application on Firebase that uses Node.js APIs that is hosted on AWS Windows EC2 instance. When I try to run the Firebase app on the browser and try to log in, I get the following error:
The page at 'https://website.web.app/' was loaded over HTTPS, but requested an insecure XMLHttpRequest endpoint 'http://IP-address/API'. This request has been blocked; the content must be served over HTTPS.
Is there a way I can load an SSL certificate onto the AWS EC2 instance to allow the APIs to be sent over an HTTPS url?
Is there a way I can load an SSL certificate onto the AWS EC2 instance to allow the APIs to be sent over an HTTPS url?
Yes, there are many ways of doing this. The easiest (don't confused with the cheapest) is to front your instance with an Application Load Balancer. Also you need your own domain. Once you have bought the domain, you can get free ssl from AWS ACM. After that you can easly add the ssl certificate to the ALB to have full support for HTTPS.
So I was able to get SSL certificate for my website and it is on AWS but for some reason when I input www.mydomain.com or mydomain.com it still shows unsecured on the browser but when I add https to mydomain.com it shows the secure icon. Please anyone with how to solve this?
The reason is the server has no redirection policy, you need to add redirection policy to redirect site from HTTP to HTTPs.
If you are using Application load balancer you can go through below article to set up HTTP to HTTPS redirection.
redirect-http-to-https-using-alb
If you are using Nginx, then you can look into redirect-http-to-https-in-nginx
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SSL in web applications is only carried out when your user loads the website using HTTPS. Generally in this situation you would want to perform a redirect (a 302 is more preferable initially than a 301 as it is not permanent in the event of a rollback).
There are a number of ways you can trigger a redirection without having to make any server changes, it all depends on your infrastructure setup.
If the first point of call is CloudFront you can update your viewer protocol policy to Redirect HTTP to HTTPS. CloudFront will redirect any HTTP request before they touch the origin.
If you're using an application load balancer then you can update your listener rule for HTTP to redirect HTTP to HTTPS. As with the above requests would not be forwarded to your host.
Otherwise if you're a Classic Load Balancer, Network Load Balancer or just plain EC2 then it falls to you modifying the configuration of your hosts to do the redirect (remembering to set to a 302).
Below are links for most common web servers:
Apache
Nginx
IIS
Tomcat
Once you're happy with the redirect, feel free to set as a 301.
The above answer work but in addition, if you are using a load balancer in your AWS EC2 instance you can follow this video link to the best explanation and practice.
How to redirect HTTP traffic to HTTPS in the EC2 Elastic Load Balancer
I set up an EC2 Instance
I uploaded an SSL Certificate and set it up correctly (Working)
When i go to my site using https it loads properly therefore no error with the certificate
I created an application Load Balancer
I set everything up and set Redirecting in http to https port 443
This still doesn't redirect my http page requests
I tried the DNS Name (A Record) in in load balancer and it shows that the connection is not secure and then loads my website in http itself
Have i missed out any crucial part?
Any help is appreciated
I have a client application hosted on S3 with a custom domain on godaddy. Cloudfront is serving all of the http(s) requests - all of that is well and good. I have an SSL certificate through ACM. There is an input dialog on the UI that when submitted, makes a POST request to a flask application running on ELB, but this request is failing because ELB is not configured for HTTPS (i.e. chrome is blocking an HTTP request because of mixed-content). Requests to the HTTP version of the endpoint work fine, but HTTPS requests time out. How do I configure the ELB load balancer to accept HTTPS requests? I've modified the configuration of the load balancer like so: https://imgur.com/3zWpS7f but requests are still failing. Any tips? Much appreciated!!
EDIT: I've configured the load balancer with a security group that allows ingress on 443 with HTTPS but now i'm getting a "Not secure" message with Chrome. is this because the certificate is registered with a domain associated with the site and not this api? do i need a separate certificate? The error code from chrome is: err_cert_common_name_invalid
Background
I am serving an application on AWS using Route53 + LoadBalancer + EC2.
I want to force all users to use https. Whenever a request is made on http, I want it redirected to a https request.
Potential Solutions
I know of three ways to redirect HTTP to HTTPS:
Client side. This involves using JS to check if the host is http or https, and redirecting if it's https.
Server Side. This involves configuring the webserver to redirect all http requests to https.
However, I'm curious: can this be done at the Route53 or LoadBalancer stage?
Question
Is there some way to configure Route53 or LoadBalancer so that any requests on http are redirected to https?
Thanks!
Edit
For downvoters: please explain why you are down voting. The solutions I have found on SO / Google are "how do do redirection via server, which is option 2. I'm trying to solve this at the AWS layer."
There is no point in doing 'client side redirect'. By the time the JS runs and does the redirect, is way too late. The request response content has already leaked all over the net. You must do it at the server side, respond with a 301 status and Location header, and no content. This can and should be done by your Web server stack (nginx, Apache) before hitting your app (php, node, etc).
ELB does not support redirect. It supports SSL/TLS offloading by forwarding the HTTPS traffic to HTTP target group and adding the X-Forwarded-proto headers, see How do I redirect HTTP traffic on my server to HTTPS on my load balancer?. But redirect must be handled by your back end server.
Latest Update:
AWS announces support for Redirects and Fixed Responses for Application Load Balancer with two new actions: redirect and fixed-response. This way you can configure the HTTP to HTTPS redirection at the Load Balancer Level.
I´ve had the same problem and this is how I solved it:
cd /etc/httpd/conf.d/elasticbeanstalk
nano 00_application.conf
add this inside
...
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} =http
RewriteRule . https://example.com [L,R=permanent]
</VirtualHost>
service httpd restart
Clear cookies from web browser and try the http to see if redirects
The AWS method to solve this is via AWS Cloudfront. You buy a URL through Route53 (you don't have to), then you create an SSL certificate within AWS certificate manager then you set up AWS cloudfront (where you need the certificate you just set up). Hey presto, site delivered to SSL with all the security of AWS set up for you and a very fast delivery service.