nginx has a SSL module[1], so you could do that. Just redirect all traffic coming to port 80 to https[2]. But he might have had a good reason to handle it in Mo

nginx has a SSL module[1], so you could do that. Just redirect all traffic coming to port 80 to https[2]. But he might have had a good reason to handle it in Mongrel. [1] http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpSslModule http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpSslModule [2] Add this to your config: server { listen 80; server_name example.com; rewrite ^/(.*) https://example.com/$1 https://example.com/$1 permanent; }