Force HTTPS on Laravel 5 behind AWS ELB on EC2
Laravel 5 - Enforcing HTTPS I’ve used a lot of frameworks. Laravel is great.
Dealing with a load balancer Most of us are on a scaled service and most of us need HTTPS. It is much easier to put the SSL certificate on the load balancer and then proxy the request over port 80 to the actual server. It saves on CPU processes as well since the decryption work doesn’t have to be performed on the slave boxes.