stephenash · October 22, 2014 21:00 · Oct 22, 2014
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+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.
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+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.
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+## 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
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+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