NGINX HTTP/HTTPS Redirect Elasticsearch Breaks? - nginx

Question

I'm working on an application that utilizes Elasticsearch on the front-end as well as prerender.io.
I've setup SSL Certs but I cannot get the http to redirect to https, when I tried to add a 301 redirect to the secure version the secure version of the site then breaks.
The redirect at the bottom for the non-www version over to the www version works fine, but if I try to add return 301 https://www.dev.example.com$request_uri; it seems to break the application front-end.
Here's my NGINX Config:
map $http_origin $cors_origin {
default "";
"~^https?:\/\/(www\.)?dev.example.com" "$http_origin";
}
server {
ignore_invalid_headers off;
listen 80;
listen 443 ssl http2;
server_name www.dev.example.com;
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/dev.example.com/fullchain.pem;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/dev.example.com/privkey.pem;
ssl_trusted_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/dev.example.com/chain.pem;
#return 301 https://www.dev.example.com$request_uri;
#Potential redirection placement
root /var/www/example/public;
index index.html index.htm index.php;
charset utf-8;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
# Begin Prerender.io Config
proxy_set_header X-Prerender-Token exampletoken;
set $prerender 0;
if ($http_user_agent ~* "googlebot|bingbot|yandex|baiduspider|twitterbot|facebookexternalhit|rogerbot|linkedinbot|embedly|quora link preview|showyoubot|outbrain|pinterest|slackbot|vkShare|W3C_Validator") {
set $prerender 1;
}
if ($args ~ "_escaped_fragment_") {
set $prerender 1;
}
if ($http_user_agent ~ "Prerender") {
set $prerender 0;
}
if ($uri ~* "\.(js|css|xml|less|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|pdf|doc|txt|ico|rss|zip|mp3|rar|exe|wmv|doc|avi|ppt|mpg|mpeg|tif|wav|mov|psd|ai|xls|mp4|m4a|swf|dat|dmg|iso|flv|m4v|torrent|ttf|woff|svg|eot)") {
set $prerender 0;
}
#resolve using Google's DNS server to force DNS resolution and prevent caching of IPs
resolver 8.8.8.8;
if ($prerender = 1) {
#setting prerender as a variable forces DNS resolution since nginx caches IPs and doesnt play well with load balancing
set $prerender "service.prerender.io";
rewrite .* /$scheme://$host$request_uri? break;
proxy_pass http://$prerender;
}
# checks for static file, if not found proxy to app
#proxy_pass https://127.0.0.1:9200/example$path/_search?$query_string;
}
# end Prerender.io Config
# Various important file locations
location ~* ^/(robots.txt|admin|api|sitemap.xml|sitemap.xml.gz) {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}
# Favicon Location
location /favicon.ico {
access_log off;
log_not_found off;
}
# Robots.txt Location
location /robots.txt {
access_log off;
log_not_found off;
}
# NGINX Log Locations
access_log /var/log/nginx/example-access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/example-error.log error;
sendfile off;
# PHP Config - 7.3
location ~ (/index|/calculator/.*)\.php$ {
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.3-fpm.sock;
#fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_buffers 16 16k;
fastcgi_buffer_size 32k;
include fastcgi_params;
}
# This line below was disabled upon rewrite, leaving in for legacy - DR
# location ~ /\.ht {
# deny all;
# }
# ElasticSearch Config
location ~ ^/es/example(?<path>/.*)?/_(?<msearch>m?)search$ {
# This line below was disabled upon rewrite, leaving in for legacy - DR
# location ~ ^/es/quirks(?<path>/.*)?/_search$ {
access_log /var/log/nginx/elasticsearch.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/elasticsearch-error.log error;
limit_except OPTIONS POST {
allow 96.93.229.26;
deny all;
}
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:9200/quirks$path/_${msearch}search?$query_string;
# This line below was disabled upon rewrite, leaving in for legacy - DR
# proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:9200/example$path/_search?$query_string;
proxy_redirect off;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto https;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Port 443;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
}
}
server {
listen 80;
listen 443 ssl default_server http2;
server_name dev.quirks.com;
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/dev.quirks.com/fullchain.pem;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/dev.quirks.com/privkey.pem;
ssl_trusted_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/dev.quirks.com/chain.pem;
return 301 https://www.example.quirks.com$request_uri;
}