I would to redirect users that access the discourse site on port http to port https. I have checked force https but that does not seem to be causing a redirect to happen. The SSL termination is being done external to discourse (discourse always listens on 80).

[image] arothberg: The SSL termination is being done external to discourse (discourse always listens on 80) So add a HSTS header there.

What does the force https setting do if it doesnt set HSTS and it doesnt do a 3xx redirect?

[image] arothberg: What does the force https setting do if it doesnt set HSTS and it doesnt do a 3xx redirect? Add the SSL-only cookies among other things . In our recommended way to setting SSL, this is all handled automatically: templates/web.ssl.template.yml master …

That template seeks to handle the SSL termination entirely. Would be nice to have a simpler template for cases where termination is handled by eg the load balancer. Also ,I think that even with that flag set, I a seeing cookies with out the secure flag set.

Hey @Falco , let me get into this conversation… I’ve the same proble as @arothberg described. I am using a AWS Load Balancer with an Amazon Issued Certificate. When i was accessing my forum by https://www.forum.com.br it worked fine, but when accessing by forum.com.br , as the default is http, not w…

I’ve replace the entire web.ssl.template.yml with both snippets as i said above.

Did you solved that problem ? geting same bug …

For people who use AWS Classic Load Balancer still trying to solve this. You should read this page: Use Elastic Load Balancing to redirect HTTP traffic to HTTPS | AWS re:Post Basically, Ngnix should redirect to https if X-Forwarded-Proto: http . This header is set by the load balancer. Thus the co…

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MrBuBBLs (Philippe Boblet) February 12, 2021, 1:26pm 10

Great hint indeed ! Thanks

I can confirm that using the X-Forwarded-Proto to redirect the requests also works like a charm with Google Cloud’s HTTPS Load Balancer, if anyone wonders

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