Redirect http to https for Power BI Report Server

[taweel]

I have on-prem power bi report server hosted on windows server. I was using port 80 for all the reports inside organization.

let's say the link to access it was: http://myserver/reports/

Now I have installed certificate and it works fine when I use https://myserver/reports/

What I want to do is when the user uses http://myserver/reports/ it will redirect to https://myserver/reports/ 

[hackcrr · Accepted solution]

@taweel 

First, you can use IIS to implement website redirection. You can refer to the following links for this. The steps they describe are basically correct:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51063815/redirect-http-to-https-via-iis#:~:text=In%20IIS%2C%20ri....

I would also recommend using NGINX reverse proxy because it has better management and UI.
If you don't already have NGINX installed on your server, you can install it. On Windows servers, you may need to install it through a package manager such as Chocolatey, or download and configure it manually.
Open the NGINX configuration file (usually named nginx.conf on Linux systems or located at /etc/nginx/sites-available/default).
Add a server block to listen on port 80 (HTTP) and redirect to HTTPS. Here is a basic configuration example:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name myserver;

    location / {
        return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
    }
}

Make sure you have configured a separate server block to handle HTTPS requests. It should look something like this:

server {
    listen 443 ssl;
    server_name myserver;

    ssl_certificate /path/to/your/certificate.crt;
    ssl_certificate_key /path/to/your/private.key;

    location / {
        proxy_pass http://localhost:80; # Assuming your Power BI Report Server is running on port 80 internally
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
    }
}

After making these changes, restart NGINX to apply the configuration:

sudo nginx -s reload

With this setup, any HTTP request to http://myserver/reports/ will be redirected to https://myserver/reports/, providing secure access to your Power BI Report Server.

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