Nginx proxy header for rails and SSL

March, 24 2008 10:30 AM

Something that comes up at work often is the fact that nginx is missing a configuration in the location block of the SSL server block. The problem is that rails needs https headers to be sent directly to it in order to recognize it's an ssl request. Here is the configuration you need:

location / {
proxy_set_header X_FORWARDED_PROTO https;
}

This is more of a note to self than anything. If someone could provide more detail on this issue, that would be great! :)

Comments:

Bryan on March, 26 2008 06:13 PM

Ask Igor Sysoev

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