# HTTPS through Proxy; Discourse still trying to get files using HTTP

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**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [April 3, 2020, 7:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/https-through-proxy-discourse-still-trying-to-get-files-using-http/146749 "2020-04-03T19:40:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![itsbhanusharma](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/itsbhanusharma/32/180717_2.png) [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2020, 8:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/https-through-proxy-discourse-still-trying-to-get-files-using-http/146749/4 "2020-04-03T20:03:20Z")

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You Just have to go to settings and enable the checkbox that says force https.

Just to be clear, be 100% sure that your reverse proxy can handle ssl for discourse before enabling that setting.

⚠ Discourse doesn’t play nice with apache2 … If possible move to nginx.

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