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Pablo Santa Cruz
Asked: 2015-09-17 03:10:14 +0800 CST

NGINX Reverse Proxy redirect settings

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I have the following scenario:

      NGINX |                     | JavaEE
TERMINATING | -> REVERSE PROXY -> | Application
  SSL (443) |         HTTP        | Server

Reverse proxy is done by:

location /app/ {
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto https;
    proxy_set_header Host www.example.com;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;
    proxy_set_header REMOTE_ADDR $remote_addr;
    proxy_pass http://192.168.0.10:8080/app/;
}

The problem was that, all relative redirects done at application server (i.e. Location: /app/login) where being redirected to http://www.example.com/app/login instead of its https counterpart https://www.example.com/app/login.

So, to fix it, I added this to NGINX's location configuration:

proxy_redirect http://www.example.com/ https://www.example.com/;

And it started working without issues.

My question is: is it good practice to have such a redirect? Is there another way of doing this?

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