Redirect_to puts me from https to http

Rails
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I’m trying to deploy my application. I basically followed the cookbook
in the rails book. But I have a problem.

My incoming requests are https://foo.com/whatever I do a RewriteRule to
pass it to a Proxy with two mongrel BalanceMembers as
http://127.0.0.1:8000 and 8001. All that is working fine except when my
rails code executes a redirect_to there(id) function. That puts me back
to an http request. I have my Apache server set up so that you can not
get to these pages using http so the server gives me back a page not
found or permission denied or something like that.

I think I understand why this is happening. As far as mongrel and rails
thinks, this is an http request.

Can I get mongrel to pass the request to rails as if it was https?

Thank you for your help,
Perry

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On Mon, 2007-02-07 at 04:05 +0200, Perry S. wrote:

I think I understand why this is happening. As far as mongrel and rails
thinks, this is an http request.

Can I get mongrel to pass the request to rails as if it was https?

Try adding these two lines to your apache configuration:

RequestHeader set X_FORWARDED_PROTO “https”
RequestHeader set X_ORIGINAL_PROTOCOL “https”

If you’re using VirtualHost blocks, these lines go in that block.

Thank you for your help,
Perry

–
Rick
[email protected]

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Thanks. I was just about to come back and post an update.

I found this link:

http://blog.innerewut.de/articles/2006/06/21/mongrel-and-rails-behind-apache-2-2-and-ssl

Thank you again.