I had a problem where the url_scheme was not being set properly. I tracked it down to this setting needing to be included in uwsgi_params or nginx.conf: uwsgi_param UWSGI_SCHEME $scheme; Should this param be included in the default uwsgi_params that comes with nginx? Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,182679,182679#msg-182679