Hey guys, I have a self-hosted discourse server that I am hosting on an ec2 and I have it setup through a socket that proxies through nginx to set the domain name. The issue I am having is that I can’t get the server to switch from http to https on emails. Specifically for the activation email: A new account was created for you at %{site_name} Click the following link to choose a password for your new account: %{base_url}/u/password-reset/%{email_token} The base_url always gives the http version of the site, and not the https version, which causes an error when someone tries to use the activation email. I thought that the setting for base_url would be in the site_settings table, so I looked and there is a row that looks like this: id name data_type value created_at updated_at 18 vapid_base_url 1 http://***.***.com 2022-05-28 05:33:29.471814 2022-06-18 08:31:48.220973 but changing the value to https://... doesn’t fix the email problem. I don’t know where the value is for base_url. I also thought that maybe it was the DISCOURSE_HOSTNAME property in the containers/app.yml file, but I don’t think that is what it is. I tried changing that from a domain without the protocol, to one with it, but after a ./launcher rebuild app, the whole discourse server goes down. So I am asking, how do I get the site to use a https url in emails and not http. ?

okay that was it, @pfaffman thanks! You deserve a prize!

שנה שרת דיון עצמאי מ-http ל-https

pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) 18 ביוני,‏ 2022,‏ 11:27pm 2

See the force_https site setting.