# Discourse always generates links to itself with http: rather than https:
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-always-generates-links-to-itself-with-http-rather-than-https/103910
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 10, 2018, 3:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-always-generates-links-to-itself-with-http-rather-than-https/103910 "2018-12-10T15:10:15Z")
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### Author:  [@Tom\_Boutell](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tom_Boutell)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2018, 3:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-always-generates-links-to-itself-with-http-rather-than-https/103910/1 "2018-12-10T15:10:15Z")
I have recently switched to having Discourse listen on a Unix socket and proxying through an nginx server on the underlying Linux system. Works great.
However, Discourse builds all of its internal links with `http`, so it’s mixed content warnings all over the place.
Is there a simple way to force this issue in `app.yml`? `DISCOURSE_PROTOCOL` would be great but I don’t think it exists.
I did try configuring nginx to pass a protocol header, but this doesn’t appear to make any difference:
`proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto "https";`
Any thoughts? Thanks.
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2018, 3:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-always-generates-links-to-itself-with-http-rather-than-https/103910/2 "2018-12-10T15:27:47Z")
Make sure you’ve enabled the `force_https` site setting in Discourse.
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### Author:  [@Tom\_Boutell](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tom_Boutell)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2018, 4:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-always-generates-links-to-itself-with-http-rather-than-https/103910/3 "2018-12-10T16:15:33Z")
Thanks, now I’m down to tracking down a few things I apparently overrode in the header… somehow… when this was set up… years ago. 😢 😆
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### Author:  [@Tom\_Boutell](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tom_Boutell)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2018, 4:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-always-generates-links-to-itself-with-http-rather-than-https/103910/4 "2018-12-10T16:20:57Z")
Figured that out too. Admin → Customize → Clicked on my existing “New Style” (this was what was not obvious) → drilled down from there to desktop header.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2019, 4:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-always-generates-links-to-itself-with-http-rather-than-https/103910/5 "2019-01-09T16:21:53Z")
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