Force ssl redirect on reverse proxy?

Virtualmin
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Hello,

I’m using a Virtualmin virtual host site as a reverse proxy to our Rocket.Chat server. I have a Let’s Encrypt cert generated through Virtualmin. However, I’m having a hard time trying to figure out how to force SSL. When I put in https://myserver.com:3000 on the destination, the site fails. http://myserver.com:3000 works just fine, though. Only Safari seems to automatically try https. Firefox and Chrome do not so I’d like to ensure all users are going over https.

Thanks in advance for any advice on how to do this!

  • Ryan
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heres my nginx site config /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default : https://gyazo.com/93b486863248916ca7f06deff3995d03

add this line :         return 301 https://www.yourdomain.com$request_uri;

I got rocket chat on https://www.thaiprochat.com/ and it simes works

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Thank you, but unfortunately I’m using Apache to do this. I’m sure the configuration is similar.

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ok, go to “Redirecting HTTP Web Traffic to HTTPS SSL Connection” section in https://techjourney.net/how-to-use-lets-encrypt-ssl-certificate-automatically-in-virtualmin-webmin/

hope it helps

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When I add this line to any sites vhost config I get “too many redirects”, strange because if I visit the site via https it comes up perfectly with SSL secured.
It’s a little ambiguous in the documentation so would be good to see how others have tackled this?

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Assuming you have both an :80 and :443 vhost config, have you tried adding below to the :80 http vhost config:
Redirect / https://myserver.com/