"return" directive is not allowed here in - nginx

Question

i got "return" directive is not allowed here in error on nginx -t
here is my nginx.conf
user nginx;
worker_processes auto;
worker_rlimit_nofile 100000;
events {
use epoll;
worker_connections 1024;
multi_accept on;
}
http {
access_log off;
sendfile on;
tcp_nopush on;
tcp_nodelay on;
keepalive_timeout 30;
keepalive_requests 100000;
server {
listen 80;
server_name _;
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
}
server {
listen 443 ssl;
server_name example.com;
ssl_certificate ssl/example.pem;
ssl_certificate_key ssl/example.key;
ssl_conf_command Options KTLS;
ssl_protocols TLSv1.2 TLSv1.3;
location / {
root /usr/local/etc/nginx/html;
index index.html index.htm;
charset utf-8;
}
}
}
nginx -t command gives me
"return" directive is not allowed here in /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf:22
i tried remove conf file and created again, no luck
additional note: if i remove part of config
server {
listen 80;
server_name _;
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
}
it works
UPDATE :
if you compile nginx from source, if u do not add rewrite module it happens because return directive part of rewrite module