https not redirecting to mongrel upstream - nginx

Question

Normal http is working fine for me with nginx and mongrel, however when i attempt to use https I am directed to the "welcome to nginx page".
http {
# passenger_root /opt/passenger-2.2.11;
# passenger_ruby /usr/bin/ruby1.8;
include mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
#log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
# '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
# '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
#access_log logs/access.log main;
sendfile on;
#tcp_nopush on;
#keepalive_timeout 0;
keepalive_timeout 65;
upstream mongrel {
server 00.000.000.000:8000;
server 00.000.000.000:8001;
}
server {
listen 443;
server_name domain.com;
ssl on;
ssl_certificate /etc/ssl/localcerts/domain_combined.crt;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/ssl/localcerts/www.domain.com.key;
# ssl_session_timeout 5m;
# ssl_protocols SSLv2 SSLv3 TLSv1;
# ssl_ciphers ALL:!ADH:!EXPORT56:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+LOW:+SSLv2:+EXP;
# ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
location / {
root /current/public/;
index index.html index.htm;
proxy_set_header X_FORWARDED_PROTO https;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_redirect off;
proxy_pass http://mongrel;
}
}
}

Answer 1

Do you have an explicit server entry for port 80? It could be that an nginx default directive is intercepting the regular HTTP traffic.
Add a another server block just to be sure:
server {
listen 80;
server_name domain.com www.domain.com;
rewrite ^(.*) https://domain.com$1 permanent;
}
This will redirect all traffic for your app to https, which even if it isn't what you ultimately want to happen, at least you know you're missing the non-https block and you can then replace this with the directives you need.