Port redirect in URL

[Jim Ohlstein]

Hello,

On 4/21/16 10:51 AM, Igor Sysoev wrote:
> On 21 Apr 2016, at 17:41, Jim Ohlstein <jim at ohlste.in> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> On 4/21/16 10:17 AM, Igor Sysoev wrote:
>>> On 21 Apr 2016, at 17:14, Igor Sysoev <igor at sysoev.ru> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 21 Apr 2016, at 17:09, Jim Ohlstein <jim at ohlste.in> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm going a bit crazy here and hoping for some help. I've set up a new Mailman installation on FreeBSD. The system is set as follows:
>>>>>
>>>>> Web <-> nginx SSL termination and reverse proxy <-> nginx + fcgiwrap + Mailman
>>>>>
>>>>> When I try to access https://lists.mydomain.com or https://lists.mydomain.com/ it redirects me to https://lists.mydomain.com:8000/mailman/listinfo which of course fails.
>>>>>
>>>>> If I access https://lists.mydomain.com/mailman/listinfo directly or any URL except the main one, it works as expected.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have tried multiple options including:
>>>>>
>>>>> port_in_redirect off;
>>>>> proxy_bind $host:443;
>>>>> proxy_redirect off;
>>>>>
>>>>> Nothing seems to be working.
>>>>> Proxy settings for nginx front end: server
>>>>>
>>>>>    location / {
>>>>>        proxy_pass http://10.0.250.37:8000;
>>>>>        proxy_set_header    X-Real-IP   $remote_addr;
>>>>>        proxy_set_header    X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
>>>>> 	proxy_set_header    X-Forwarded-Proto   $scheme;
>>>>>        proxy_http_version 1.1;
>>>>>        proxy_set_header Connection "";
>>>>>        proxy_redirect   off;
>>>>>        proxy_set_header   Host  $host;
>>>>>
>>>>> 	[snip]
>>>>>    }
>>>>>
>>>>> Backend server uses fastcgi for Python via fcgiwrap. Any help would be appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> proxy_redirect  on;
>>>
>>> Sorry, no.
>>>
>>> proxy_redirect  https://lists.mydomain.com:8000/  /;
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Same result. I believe I had tried it already. To make certain I wasn't seeing a cached response I checked with curl:
>>
>> curl -I https://lists.mydomain.com
>> HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
>> Server: nginx/1.9.14
>> Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 14:34:27 GMT
>> Content-Type: text/html
>> Content-Length: 185
>> Connection: keep-alive
>> Location: http://lists.mydomain.com:8000/mailman/listinfo
>> Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000
>>
>> So it's actually redirecting to http. I have
>>
>> fastcgi_param HTTPS on;
>> fastcgi_param HTTP_SCHEME https;
>>
>> set on the backend server so this is puzzling.
>
> Then you need:
>
> -proxy_redirect  https://lists.mydomain.com:8000/  /;
> +proxy_redirect  http://lists.mydomain.com:8000/  /;
>
> The first parameter should be equal to the beginning
> of string in Location header.  Also you can specify several
> proxy_redirect directives.
>
>

That worked. Thank you, Igor! It's good to see you on the English list. 
Reminds me of the old days of 0.6.x (OK, not as old as some, but it's 
been awhile).

-- 
Jim Ohlstein


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