Elastic Beanstalk configuration to redirect HTTP to HTTPS (place this inside .ebextensions folder and deploy)

https-redirect.config

files:
   /etc/nginx/conf.d/elasticbeanstalk/00_application2.conf:
     owner: root
     group: root
     mode: "000644"
     content: |
       location / {
           set $redirect 0;
           if ($http_x_forwarded_proto != "https") {
               set $redirect 1;
           }
           if ($http_user_agent ~* "ELB-HealthChecker") {
               set $redirect 0;
           }
           if ($redirect = 1) {
               return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
           }

           proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8000;
           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;
       }

container_commands:
  removeconfig:
    command: "sudo rm -f /etc/nginx/conf.d/elasticbeanstalk/00_application.conf"
  nginx_reload:
    command: "sudo service nginx reload"