When running an NGINX reverse proxy in front of Discourse you cannot log into the site. After submitting your credentials you are taken back to the index page and do not have a session. No errors are displayed and it seems from the logs that the login was successfull. Creating scope :open. Overwrit…

You forgot to add a header: proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto https; will fix this issue.

I’ve added that directive but still getting the same issue. Conf looks like this now: server { listen 80; server_tokens off; server_name forum.test.financefeast.io; location / { return 301 https://$host$request_uri; } location ~* \.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|ico|css|js)$ { …

Looks like you have solved your problem in the new topic you created: [image] Users Can’t Log In After Nginx Setup Self-hosting Added these - it now works. proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Scheme https; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $host; proxy_set_header X…

Discouse with NginX reverse proxy - Cannot log in

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1vernit3 (Ian Knight) January 21, 2026, 3:42pm 4

Did you ever manage to solve this I am getting this problem too.

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Discouse with NginX reverse proxy - Cannot log in

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