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Michael Haren
Asked: 2009-08-05 05:29:19 +0800 CST

Force URL root to be HTTPS instead of HTTP for RoR application

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I am attempting to run Redmine (RoR) through an Apache reverse proxy. Mongrel serves plain-text pages which Apache protects with SSL and serves to my users. The problem is that various links and redirects within Redmine send users to http:// instead of https:// .

The settings on the admin page are configured for https but this doesn't seem to help. I also added this line to environment.rb to solve a relative root problem (that fixed it, but not the https problem):

ActionController::AbstractRequest.relative_url_root = "/r/"

How can I force Redmine to always use https?

Note that a redirect won't work because my server only has :443 open and thus :80 requests wouldn't be seen to be rewritten. A rewrite of the site's data could work but seems less than ideal.

apache-2.2 ruby-on-rails reverse-proxy redmine

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Each of these refer to setting X_FORWARDED_PROTO to 'https' in your Apache config:

    Best of luck.

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