letsencrypt standalone certification not showing up on GET request - django

Question

I was able to create certifications under the path /etc/letsencrypt/{{mywebdomain}}/ and set under my server where the ssl_cert and ssl_cert_key absolute pathfile locations for my nginx server.
When I run the command sudo nginx -t I receive a successful configuration output and the nginx server is running in the reverse proxy for Django without any problems. But when I access the root of my website on my chrome browser, I'm receiving the "http://website.com" instead of "https://website.com".
Please point me in the right direction if anyone was able to correctly encrypt their domain content with gunicorn-django-nginx configuration.
My website snippet conf:
upstream app_server {
unix:/home/me/Documents/masterdomain/src/portfolio_revamp.sock;
}
server {
client_max_body_size 4M;
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
listen 443 ssl;
listen [::]:443 ssl;
listen www.mysite.com:80;
server_name example.com www.example.com;
http://example.com;
ssl_certificate
/etc/letsencrypt/live/mysite.com/fullchain.pem;
ssl_certificate_key
/etc/letsencrypt/live/mysite.com/privkey.pem;
root /home/akeem/Documents/SpencerMaster/src;
index templates/home.html templates/main.html;
location / {
proxy_pass
http://unix:/home/me/Documents/masterdomain/src/portfolio_revamp.sock;
alias /home/me/Documents/master/templates/home.html;
}
location ~ /.well-known {
allow all;
}
location /static {
autoindex on;
alias /home/me/Documents/masterdomain/static;
}
location /media {
autoindex on;
alias /home/me/Documents/masterdomain/media;
}
}
I'm running a xenial ubuntu 16.04 server if that makes a difference.

Answer 1

I believe the issue is that you aren't redirecting to HTTPS - unless you specifically enter https://example.com, you'll be directed to the standard http://example.com.
I use this guide from DigitalOcean which recommends two server blocks. In your case it will look something like:
server {
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server;
server_name mysite.com www.mysite.com;
return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
}
server {
client_max_body_size 4M;
listen 443 ssl default_server;
listen [::]:443 ssl default_server;
No server_name required here
... Everything else ...
}