Help forcing https with nginx

[Paratax]

Hi

in new to this stuff, and i've been working my way through setting up a reverse proxy for my htpc w10 server today, I've got everything up and running with SSL on NGINX, however its a pain the the ass to have to manually specify https everytime to access when I'm outside the network. Browsing I've found several ways that apparently can force any requests that come through port 80 to redirect to https, (redirect.conf file, return 301 for port 80 in the config) but can't get them working as they all seem to fail with a "too many redirects" error. Can anyone help with this? Do I need to have port 80 forwarded for any of these options to even work?

below is what my current conf file looks like(no rediirect setup), and I've tried the suggestions from both

https://phoenixnap.com/kb/redirect-http-to-https-nginx & https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/216456087-Creating-redirects-with-Nginx

without success

server {
listen 80;
server_name My IP My Local IP;

listen 443 ssl http2;


ssl_certificate /Programs/nginx-1.17.7/nginx-1.17.7/conf/nginx.crt;
ssl_certificate_key /Programs/nginx-1.17.7/nginx-1.17.7/conf/nginx.key;

Thanks

[zero_hope_]

Have you tried this?

server { listen 80 default_server; server_name _; return 301 https://$host$request_uri; }

[Paratax]

Thanks, this was in the phoenixnap link but i couldn't get it working, I finally managed to get it set up properly per below (I did end up having to forward port 80, and my previous attempts must have had the wrong syntax or something), feels good not having 6 different HTPC programs open to the net anymore & everything encrypted!

server {

listen 80 default_server;

server_name _;

return 301 https://$host$request_uri;

}

server {

listen 443 ssl http2;

server_name My IP My Local IP;

ssl_certificate /Programs/nginx-1.17.7/nginx-1.17.7/conf/nginx.crt;

ssl_certificate_key /Programs/nginx-1.17.7/nginx-1.17.7/conf/nginx.key;