Fix 'The plain HTTP request was sent to HTTPS port' Error in Nginx | Linux Today

Fix ‘The plain HTTP request was sent to HTTPS port’ Error in Nginx

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Aaron Kili
Jan 9, 2018

In this article, we will show how to solve the ‘400 Bad Request: The plain HTTP request was sent to HTTPS port’ in Nginx HTTP server. This error normally arises when you try to configure Nginx to handle both HTTP and HTTPS requests.

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Aaron Kili

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