Story

One of my friends said when she typed only the domain name f4bb1t.com instead of clicking the link https://f4bb1t.com in browser, she got the 404 NOT FOUND message of Google, sometimes I also had that error.

I am a bit confused at first, and both of my friends lg and sh pointed out that I should enable port 80 redirection to port 443.

SAD

Life . . .

Without much experience in site building, I did a lot of search in the Internet, and came across this:

• Redirect Http to Https in Apache

However, after some trials, I failed, the dumb .htaccess file is useless.

Suddenly, I thought it might be the problem of load balancer, because that layer is before the server, then finally I found the correct information to set it up. yay!

Solution

• Set Up HTTP-to-HTTPS redirect for external HTTP(S) GCP load balancers

Basically, the solution is to create another front-end only GCP load balancer to forward the 80 traffic to my previous 443 load balancer. Interesting.

POC:

Now I managed to provide better user experience…❥(^_-)

If wanna get more clients' information from GCP load balancer…

The solution is here: Creating custom headers

Custom request and response headers allow you to specify additional headers that the external HTTP(S) load balancer adds to requests and responses.