Nginx https reverse proxy another 502 - nginx

Question

Hi I am trying to setup a nginx to work as a reverse proxy to an application that I am running on a tomcat server. when I try to access my application through http it works fine, but when I try to access it over https I am getting a 502 error
here follows my nginx config file
user www-data;
worker_processes 4;
pid /run/nginx.pid;
events {
worker_connections 768;
# multi_accept on;
}
http {
sendfile on;
tcp_nopush on;
tcp_nodelay on;
keepalive_timeout 65;
types_hash_max_size 2048;
include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log notice;
gzip on;
gzip_disable "msie6";
rewrite_log on;
server{
ssl on;
listen 80;
listen 443 ssl;
server_name myapp.local;
ssl_certificate max.local.crt;
ssl_certificate_key server.key;
#ssl_protocols SSLv3 TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
#ssl_ciphers RC3:HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5;
#ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
ssl_session_timeout 5m;
keepalive_timeout 60;
error_log /var/log/nginx/hybris.log;
rewrite_log on;
set $my_port 9001;
set $my_protocol "http";
if ($scheme = https){
set $myport 9002;
set $my_protocol "https";
}
location / {
if ( $http_user_agent ~ "Chrome"){
#just a proof of concept
return 301 http://$host/AE/en;
}
if ( $http_user_agent ~ "Firefox"){
#just a proof of concept
return 301 http://google.com/;
}
}
location /AE/en {
proxy_pass $scheme://10.0.2.2:$my_port;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
}
location ~(?:/..)?/_ui/(.*) {
proxy_pass http://10.0.2.2:9001/_ui/$1;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
}
}
}

Answer 1

When using https you are changing the port and also scheme for connecting to the tomcat server - this does not really make sense. You would only use https for a backend server if it is in another datacenter, not within a local network. It should work fine if you remove the $my_port and $my_protocol definitions and change your /AE/en location block to
location /AE/en {
proxy_pass http://10.0.2.2:9001;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
}

Answer 2

I think you need to create two server sections. One for listening on port 80 and the other for listening on port 453 which is for https.