Http does not redirect to https only at the first access

trellis
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@fullyint Yes, indeed there was a conflict on the nginx conf, and solved by removing it!

The fix

On the production server.

$ cd /etc/nginx/sites-enabled
$ ls
letsencrypt-simplynativejapan.com.au.conf  simplynativejapan.com.au.conf
no-default.conf

$ more letsencrypt-simplynativejapan.com.au.conf 
server {
  listen 80;
  server_name simplynativejapan.com.au www.simplynativejapan.com.au;
  include acme-challenge-location.conf;
}

$ sudo rm letsencrypt-simplynativejapan.com.au.conf 
$ sudo nginx -t
nginx: the configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is ok
nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test is successful

$ sudo service nginx reload

Why it happened?

My guess is…
I remember that I had an error when I first provisioned the production server ( ansible-playbook server.yml -e env=production ).

I forgot to set CNAME for the www.simplynativejapan.com.au , and the Letsencrpypt task failed because the API could not reach to the site.
I could complete the provisioning after setting CNAME but maybe the letsencrypt-simplynativejapan.com.au.conf was left during the retry?

Thank you @fullyint for your prompt suggestion. You saved my day!

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