Django on ElasticBeanstalk - HTTP to HTTPS redirects

README.md

I needed a way to have my Django ElasticBeanstalk application automatically redirect HTTP requrests to HTTPS. Rick Christianson wrote a post [1] about how to do this by overwriting the wsgi.conf file with one that was slightly modified to support the HTTP to HTTPS redirect.

Building off the shoulders of giants, I wanted to do the same, but not have to keep a copy of the config file in my local source directory. Christianson even points out in his post that if ElasticBeanstalk ever changes it's template for the wsgi.conf file, those updates would not be overwritten and you wouldn't get their benefits. To get around that problem, I used sed to insert the new lines into the wsgi.conf file.

References

1. http://rickchristianson.wordpress.com/2013/11/02/updating-wsgi-automatically-in-amazon-aws/
2. http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/customize-containers-ec2.html#customize-containers-format-container_commands

app.config

container_commands:
  01_http_to_https_redirect:
    command: 
      sed -i '/\<VirtualHost \*:80\>/a RewriteEngine On\nRewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} !https\nRewriteRule \!/robots.txt https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]' /opt/python/ondeck/wsgi.conf

Thank you. It worked for me

I'm not sure if this will work consistently - e.g. if you change environmental variables using the AWS EB console, it will rewrite the wsgi but not run the container command.

See: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=163369

Here is a gist from that forum post that has a work around:
https://gist.github.com/djshen-ponddy/0c44a5d835aad7746518d90c360a1297

This doesn't work.

Worked like sweet charm. Changing apache config didn't help . Best solution indeed