Can Jenkins redirect HTTP requests to HTTPS?

Owen B. Mehegan

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Mar 6, 2015, 6:46:35 PM3/6/15

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I'm running Jenkins 1.596.1 on Linux, using the built-in Jetty server. I have it serving HTTP and HTTPS successfully, and now I'm trying to figure out a way to redirect all HTTP requests to HTTPS. I've searched for Jetty-specific ways to do this, but the answers I've found don't really mesh with the Jenkins configuration, as far as I can see. Can anyone suggest a way to do this?

Owen B. Mehegan

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Mar 6, 2015, 8:20:51 PM3/6/15

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I guess the native Jenkins server is Winstone, not Jetty, and it doesn't look like there's a way to do this there. It's sounding like I will need an nginx redirect.

Tim Black

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Oct 23, 2020, 3:48:50 PM10/23/20

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Owen, did your assertion turn out to be true? Is a reverse proxy required to perform this redirection of jenkins requests from http (80,8080) to https (port 8443)?

I'm currently using iptables to forward 443 to 8443 to allow my users to not require a port in the URL, however, this does still require "https://" in the URL. So, like you (probably) I'd like to redirect http ports to jenkins default ssl/https port 8443. But I'm not sure if a simple port forward from 80/8080 to 8443 would work, or if it would break the ssl negotiation that needs to happen.

So far, my attempts to add these rules have not succeeded in redirecting http requests on port 80 to https requests on port 443.

I'm sure I'm missing something important here. In case someone is listening here is what my nat iptable looks like:

jenkins@jenkins-testing:~$ sudo iptables -nvL -t nat

Chain PREROUTING (policy ACCEPT 13 packets, 1810 bytes)