For context, I have my Discourse test site running in a Proxmox container behind Nginx (npmplus) on a different server on the same network (but not subnet). Not really anything special. I tried enabling force-https but I kept getting a bunch of CSRF validation errors so I just disabled it again beca…

The error message Discourse ID returned is complaining that the site’s Redirect URI must be https, so you need to turn on force_https, or otherwise indicate via your proxy configuration the requests are coming in via https. [image] darkpixlz: the site works on https fine Except for everythin…

[image] supermathie: Except for everything that doesn’t: [image] Huh, guess I never noticed any of that. As I said, I tried enabling force_https, but I kept getting CSRF errors doing anything. Maybe the normal nginx variables just don’t work on npmplus (according to the instructions that sa…

I think the issue right now is just weirdness with the variables npmplus is exposing. I had a working config before but I lost it and am not really sure what to do at the moment, I settled on the following but don’t want to enable the setting until I’m 100% sure it’ll work to avoid BAD CSRF and a tr…

[image] darkpixlz: it seems to just be rejecting traffic over 443 Cannot dereference this pointer - I believe you are talking about the Discourse container? force_https does not affect whether Discourse serves on port 443 (HTTPS); it only tells Discourse that it should assume it’s always bei…

Can't enable DiscourseID on a site with force-https disabled

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Falco (Falco) March 26, 2026, 9:44pm 4

You should fix your reverse proxy setup and get proper HTTPS working.

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Can't enable DiscourseID on a site with force-https disabled

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