I believe you need to put the `return 301 ...` inside a location block too.
Otherwise, it overrides all the location blocks.

I'm on my phone now, but I'll try to share a sample file from one of my
servers (that works as you want it) when I get back to my computer.

Moshe


On Sun, Dec 2, 2018, 5:03 PM Mik J via nginx <nginx@nginx.org wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'd like to be able to offer let's encrypt in port 80 only and redirect
> everything else to port 443
>
> server {
> listen 80;
> listen [::]:80;
> listen 443;
> listen [::]:443;
> server_name http://www.mydomain.org blog.mydomain.org;
> location ^~ /.well-known/acme-challenge { default_type
> "text/plain"; root /var/www/letsencrypt; }
> location = /.well-known/acme-challenge/ { return 404; }
> return 301 https:// mydomain.org;
> }
>
> My problem is that everything is redirected and I cannot access a file in
> /var/www/letsencrypt/.well-known/acme-challenge
> When I comment the return 301 it works but I loose the redirection.
>
> It seems to me that nginx parses everything where I would expect it to
> stop at
> location ^~ /.well-known/acme-challenge { default_type "text/plain"; root
> /var/www/letsencrypt; }
>
> Does anyone know the trick ?
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