HTTPS Redirect not working on Virtualmin Nginx

Virtualmin
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I am using LEMP stack with Virtual which I installed using “–bundle LEMP” while installing virtualmin on a debian9 OS.

When I below settings, The https redirect is not working on any of the domains.

System Settings --> Virtualmin Configurations --> SSL Settings --> Redirect all http to https by default --> yes

However I am able to do the redirect by adding below code in domain.com.conf

server {
server_name domain.com www.domain.com;
listen ipaddress:80;
rewrite ^/(.*) https://domain.com/$1 permanent;
}

But I wonder why the inbuilt feature that ships with virtualmin is not working?

Please note I am using Lets’ Encrypt SSL.

on other note I wonder what type of Redirect Virtualmin does if that feature is to work? Is it also 301 redirect?

Any help on this would be immensely helpful.

Thanks

2

I’m seeing the same behavior on Ubuntu with Nginx

3

I personally don’t think that setting works if you’re using NGINX.

My favourite for redirection is this block

if ($scheme = http) {
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
}

but I don’t want to do it in config files, because I do it in mass for WordPress and basically every other site. Would prefer a UI or more consistent method.