Strange unwanted HTTPS redirection in my nginx server

Question

I'm struggling to find what's causing an HTTPS redirection in my nginx server. I have even started a new vagrant box to test it without any luck, so I'm starting to believe it doesn't have anything to do with my local vagrant box.

I'm using Mac OSX High Sierra in my computer, and an Ubuntu 16.04 for my local server in my vagrant box.

As I described, I'm constantly getting an HTTPS redirection for my domain, and SSL is not enabled in my nginx server.

Here is my nginx configuration (vhost.conf):

server {
  listen 80;

  root /var/www/example.dev/html;
  index index.php;

  server_name example.dev;
  sendfile off;

  location / {
      try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?q=$uri&$args;
  }

  # pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on /tmp/php7.0-fpm.sock
  #
  location ~ \.php$ {
        fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
        try_files $fastcgi_script_name =404;
        set $path_info $fastcgi_path_info;
        fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $path_info;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        include fastcgi.conf;
  }
}

In my nginx.conf I have the following content:

user www-data;
worker_processes auto;
pid /run/nginx.pid;

events {
    worker_connections 768;
}

http {

    ##
    # Basic Settings
    ##

    sendfile on;
    tcp_nopush on;
    tcp_nodelay on;
    keepalive_timeout 65;
    types_hash_max_size 2048;
    # server_tokens off;

    # server_names_hash_bucket_size 64;
    # server_name_in_redirect off;

    include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
    default_type application/octet-stream;

    ##
    # Logging Settings
    ##

    access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
    error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;

    ##
    # Gzip Settings
    ##

    gzip on;
    gzip_disable "msie6";

    ##
    # Virtual Host Configs
    ##

    include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
    include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
}

And in my /etc/hosts file, I added the following so I can access the Vagrant server from my mac (yes, 192.168.50.100 is the IP of the vagrant server, it's been checked):

192.168.50.100 example.dev

If I do a wget request from my mac, I do get the returned contents of my server, without any HTTPS redirection.

I definitely need help with this.

Answer 1

This is the most awkward thing I have experienced while setting up a server. Just changing the servername did the 'trick'.

I was using .dev TLDs. I changed it to .local and voilà! Server working. Same configurarion, countless service nginx restart, 2 different vagrant machines with 2 different versions of Ubuntu, and still got the same results.

Even changing the server.conf for a totally different one.