Laravel/Homestead Nginx SSL Redirect Loop - redirect

Question

I have seen other topics like this one: Nginx configuration leads to endless redirect loop, however all of the configurations I have tried with no change.
Problem: I want to force ALL routes to https in my Laravel 4 application but they always result in a redirect loop.
The nginx config is inside a Laravel Homestead environment. Here is the config:
server {
listen 80;
server_name dev.subdomain.mysite.com;
root /home/vagrant/sites/work/dev.subdomain.mysite.com/public;
index index.html index.htm index.php;
charset utf-8;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto https;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_set_header X-Url-Scheme $scheme;
proxy_redirect off;
proxy_max_temp_file_size 0;
}
location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
location = /robots.txt { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
access_log off;
error_log /var/log/nginx/dev.subdomain.mysite.com-error.log error;
error_page 404 /index.php;
sendfile off;
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
}
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
}
server {
listen 443;
server_name dev.subdomain.mysite.com;
root /home/vagrant/sites/work/dev.subdomain.mysite.com/public;
index index.html index.htm index.php;
charset utf-8;
location / {
try_files / /index.php?;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto https;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_set_header X-Url-Scheme $scheme;
proxy_redirect off;
proxy_max_temp_file_size 0;
}
location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
location = /robots.txt { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
access_log off;
error_log /var/log/nginx/dev.subdomain.mysite.com-error.log error;
error_page 404 /index.php;
sendfile off;
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
}
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
ssl on;
ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/ssl/server.crt;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/ssl/server.key;
}
I have disabled all routes in my application, my .htaccess is the Laravel provided default. I'm not sure what else to try.

Answer 1

First off, Laravel Homestead uses 44300 as an alias for 443 on the vagrant box.
Your http to https redirect should also be accomplished simply by:
server {
listen 80;
server_name mysite.com;
return 301 https://example.com$request_uri;
}
server {
listen 443;
server_name example.com;
root /home/vagrant/sites/work/example.com/public;
[...] // All other Laravel-related stuff
}
Secondly, you seem to be using a dev-site with Homestead, double check that your host-file and homestead.yaml is set up accordingly and everything is on order there.
Also, when making changes to SSL-certs and nginx-files, your safest bet is always to do a vagrant reload to make sure all edits are reloaded.