Elastic Beanstalk NGINX rewrite http to https using .ebextensions

setup.config

files:
  "/etc/nginx/conf.d/00_elastic_beanstalk_proxy.conf":
    mode: "000755"
    owner: root
    group: root
    content: |
      server {
        listen 80;
        gzip on;

        if ($http_x_forwarded_proto != 'https') {
          rewrite ^(.*) https://$host$1 redirect;
        }

        location / {
          proxy_pass  http://docker;
          proxy_http_version  1.1;
          proxy_set_header  Connection  $connection_upgrade;
          proxy_set_header  Upgrade $http_upgrade;
          proxy_set_header  Host  $host;
          proxy_set_header  X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
          proxy_set_header  X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        }
      }

1. place this in the .ebextensions folder and zip this folder with your Dockerrun.aws.json
   NOTE: Dockerrun.aws.json and .ebextensions folder should be at the root of the zip archive

2. add the following lines to your eb_config.yml file:

deploy:
  artifact: path/to/file.zip
...

3. run eb deploy