Our Set Up Discourse is installed on Google Compute VM machine with no SSL certificates on this server. Force_https discourse setting is set to true (checked to force https). We have the front end running with ‘Google Load Balancer’ with HTTPS certificate attached at Load balancer level. G…

Probably the list of trusted IP addresses in nginx needs to be updated so it’ll trust the XFF and XFP headers that the GAE load balancer is sending.

Can you please elaborate on where I can add those IP addresses with respect to Discourse installation?

Take a look at the templates/cloudflare.template.yml file. Basically, you need to insert set_real_ip_from directives for the full list of load balancer IPs.

Thanks Kane for your help, but the primary problem is something else. After further analysis, I think what we need is this redirection rule on Discourse Nginx config: server { listen 80; server_name www.example.org; if ($http_x_forwarded_proto != "https") { r…

No ideas? Nobody has tried this set up? These days, it is pretty common to have a LOAD balance server (using HTTPS) and then have Discourse or any other software sitting behind on HTTP. Can anybody guide (if they have successfully tried) as to where the redirection rule can be added in Discourse c…

That’s the problem. Its a google load balance server and it does not allow doing it at the load balane server. They advise to manage the http to https redirection using http_x_forwarded_proto at the end server. I have tried the same thing with Apache server running wordpress and this same rule wo…

Use a dedicated redirection container on cloud load balancers.

Thanks for quick response. I will try it.

X-Forwarded-For proxy tag not recognized by Discourse?

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mpalmer (Matt Palmer) January 19, 2018, 1:11am 7

Why would you do the redirect there? Do it at the outer layer, where you’re terminating HTTPS.

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