SSL termination behind load balancer- Rack Space & WP Multisite

cabotek · 09-19-2018, 05:26 PM

Hey Guys,

I have 2 web servers sitting behind a load balancer at Rack Space Cloud set up with SSL termination. I'm looking to force HTTP to HTTPS and I believe I would need to do it in the vhost.conf file of the vhost.d directory. These are CentOS machines. I added the below code but it appears to break it.

Code:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} !https

RewriteRule .* https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R]

The site also has lots of alias names and redirects to country that corresponds to it's language, for example .com goes to .com.mx for latin users.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

scasey · 09-20-2018, 11:55 AM

I use Redirect, not Rewrite, to force https

Code:

Redirect permanent / https://mydomain.com/

in the VirtualHost port 80 definition. Of course, there must also be a VirtualHost for port 443 for the Redirect to work.

That said, I'm not sure your Rewrite syntax is correct, but I don't know for sure.
Here's a link to the Apache documentation.
See the extensive discussion for RewriteRule...

cabotek · 09-22-2018, 09:27 PM

So I ended up putting a rewrite rule in the vhosts conf file which did the trick. After that I have been having to work on ref links of mixed content which is using http still. So ran a grep to sed command to find and replace all instances of references with http to // for their relative link. SO far it's good.

Habitual · 09-24-2018, 12:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cabotek

So I ended up putting a rewrite rule in the vhosts conf file which did the trick. After that I have been having to work on ref links of mixed content which is using http still. So ran a grep to sed command to find and replace all instances of references with http to // for their relative link. SO far it's good.

http values may be in a db table, such as wp_posts.
there's a utility that does that for you and it is quite nice.
searchandreplace .
Note: It is not an "addon"

cabotek · 11-01-2018, 09:09 PM

Appreciate the info on search and replace. May need it here very soon.

I need to create a staging environment for a clients web server. They have 2 web servers and 1 DB server behind a LB with SSL termination at the LB. The server already has a vhost folder for a staging server and dns pointing to the staging folder. It also has .htaccess and .htpasswd authentication. But when I go to the testserver webpage, most of the links in the server reference the original site. so even though on the homepage im at testexample.com it sends me to example.com. With google developer tools I can see the links on the page reference the original site.

I guess is search and replace the answer for fixing the test server? Or even better yet any info on how to best set up a staging environment, that I can hand over to the web developers and make it an easy push to live.

I'm not a professional at this so explaining things helps me quite a bit in my learning.

Thanks!