Nginx redirection to https://www.domain.tld - redirect

Question

I am trying to make my domain name only work with a https:// and www in front of it. It's important that domain.com without the www. redirects to the www, and it's also important that https:// is always enabled. I am having a lot of trouble achieving this. I've removed all the redirects from the config because they all just give me errors.
server {
listen 80;
default_type text/html;
server_name epicmc.us;
location / {
root /usr/share/nginx/html;
index index.html index.htm;
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
}
root /usr/share/nginx/html;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
error_page 404 /404.html;
error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
location = /50x.html {
root /usr/share/nginx/html;
}
# pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on the php-fpm socket
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}
server {
listen 443;
default_type text/html;
server_name www.epicmc.us;
root /usr/share/nginx/html;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
ssl on;
ssl_session_timeout 5m;
ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:5m;
ssl_stapling on;
ssl_stapling_verify on;
resolver 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4 valid=300s;
resolver_timeout 5s;
ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
ssl_ciphers ALL:!ADH:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:-LOW:-SSLv2:-EXP:!kEDH:!aNULL;
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains;";
ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/ssl/cert.crt;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/ssl/private.key;
location / {
# First attempt to serve request as file, then
# as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
# Uncomment to enable naxsi on this location
# include /etc/nginx/naxsi.rules
}
# Only for nginx-naxsi used with nginx-naxsi-ui : process denied requests
#location /RequestDenied {
# proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080;
#}
error_page 404 /404.html;
# redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
#
#error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
#location = /50x.html {
# root /usr/share/nginx/html;
#}
# pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
#
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
# # NOTE: You should have "cgi.fix_pathinfo = 0;" in php.ini
#
# # With php5-cgi alone:
# fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
# # With php5-fpm:
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
#}
# deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
# concurs with nginx's one
#
#location ~ /\.ht {
# deny all;
#}
}
}
EDIT: I am now using a PHP redirect, but there has to be a better option...

Answer 1

You should define additional virtualhost, and there redirect all clients to desired method+host.
Add to your config (tune to your taste, of course) :
# redirection vhost
server {
listen 10.1.2.3:80;
server_name www.epicmc.us epicmc.us;
access_log /logs/access.log full;
error_log /logs/error.log notice;
location / {
rewrite ^/(.*)$ https://www.epicmc.us/$1 permanent;
}
}

Answer 2

There are two ways of doing this, simple redirect return 301
server {
server_name www.example.com;
listen 80;
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
}
or using rewrite rules, check the answer for this question it might be helpful
server {
listen 80;
server_name www.example.com ;
location{
rewrite ^(.*)$ https://www.example.com/$1 permanent;
}
}
check answers for this question it might be helpful

Answer 3

Hey guys I'm using Cloudflare's flexible SSL, so my problem was that I had to do the page rules on their site and not in my config. That's why I was getting redirect errors.