Https problems

Rails
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I’m having a problem but don’t know what is causing it so I don’t know
exactly where to post, please bear with me.

I’m trying to set up https access however whenever I go to
https://url_for_site
the root route renders but the url is rewritten to http://url_for_site.
The ssl request shows in the apache logs but obviously no further ssl
requests show up. I’ve tried several tutorials and ideas and nothing
I do makes any difference.

I’m using Apache 2.2 with Mongrel on Windows.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,
Glen

2

Please post your https virtualhost…

Do you have any .htaccess files anywhere?

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ServerName cnm746852.techno.tvinet:443 ServerAdmin [email protected] TransferLog "C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation \Apache2.2\logs\ssl_transfer.log" ErrorLog "C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\logs \ssl_error.log" CustomLog "C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\logs \ssl_access.log" combined

ProxyPass / http://localhost:3000/
ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:3000

SSLEngine on

RequestHeader set X_FORWARDED_PROTO ‘https’

SSLCipherSuite ALL:!ADH:!EXPORT56:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+LOW:
+SSLv2:+EXP:+eNULL

SSLCertificateFile “C:/Documents and Settings\glen\workspace
\user_accounts\host.cert”

SSLCertificateKeyFile “C:/Documents and Settings\glen\workspace
\user_accounts\host.key”

<FilesMatch “.(cgi|shtml|phtml|php)$”>
SSLOptions +StdEnvVars

<Directory “C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/cgi-
bin”>
SSLOptions +StdEnvVars

BrowserMatch “.MSIE.”
nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown
downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0

CustomLog “C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/
logs/ssl_request.log”
“%t %h %{SSL_PROTOCOL}x %{SSL_CIPHER}x "%r" %b”

I haven’t created any .htaccess files so if any they are defaults in
default locations.

4

Well, I seem to be running in circles. I’ll try posting to the
mongrel list maybe the problem lies there?

5

Sorry was away… Do you have any rails plugins installed?

If you try https://yourhost/images/someimage.jpg does that serve the
image in https?

Is there anything in the rails log about redirect? or maybe the apache
logs?

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On Oct 20, 1:57 pm, Freddy A. [email protected] wrote:

Sorry was away… Do you have any rails plugins installed?

If you tryhttps://yourhost/images/someimage.jpgdoes that serve the
image in https?

Is there anything in the rails log about redirect? or maybe the apache
logs?

Yes to all three.

I have will_paginate installed. Although as a gem not “as a plugin”

images are served in https

and in the log I get the following:
Redirected to http://

7

Glen could you post the entire message including the initial request
from the rails log.

8

Nevermind, that was a redirect due to a session timeout. Here is the
rails log when I request the main page without the timeout issue (it
still doesn’t render https without the timeout):

Rendering C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.1.0/lib/
action_controller/templates/rescues/layout.erb (not_found)

Processing AuthenticationController#start (for 10.131.12.17 at
2008-10-21 14:10:55) [GET]
Session ID: 3df2ea2f70658b7e93b5f98d08b2b743
Parameters: {“action”=>“start”, “controller”=>“authentication”}
Rendering template within layouts/authentication
Rendering authentication/start
Completed in 0.01600 (62 reqs/sec) | Rendering: 0.01600 (100%) | DB:
0.00000 (0%) | 200 OK [http://cnm746852.techno.tvinet/]

Processing AuthenticationController#start (for 10.131.12.17 at
2008-10-21 14:12:19) [GET]
Session ID: 3df2ea2f70658b7e93b5f98d08b2b743
Parameters: {“action”=>“start”, “controller”=>“authentication”}
Redirected to http://cnm746852.techno.tvinet/
Filter chain halted as [:ensure_proper_protocol]
rendered_or_redirected.
Completed in 0.00010 (10000 reqs/sec) | DB: 0.00000 (0%) | 302 Found
[https://cnm746852.techno.tvinet/]

Processing AuthenticationController#start (for 10.131.12.17 at
2008-10-21 14:12:22) [GET]
Session ID: 3df2ea2f70658b7e93b5f98d08b2b743
Parameters: {“action”=>“start”, “controller”=>“authentication”}
Rendering template within layouts/authentication
Rendering authentication/start
Completed in 0.01600 (62 reqs/sec) | Rendering: 0.00000 (0%) | DB:
0.00000 (0%) | 200 OK [http://cnm746852.techno.tvinet/]