Force SSL on leads to ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS

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Hi,

we got a SSL-certificate today so I changed the base url to ‘https://www.zjapanr.de’ and switched line 240 in the config.inc.php to On. Without SSL the site runs without a problem. When forcing it everything goes downhill. The same problem applies to another site www.zchinr.org which is hosted on the same server. I tried to set the base URL to ‘//www.zchinr.org’ to see if there is any difference but it’s not working anyway.

OJS version is 3.1.0.1.

Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance!

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Hi @D_Schroeder_Micheel,

Are you using mod_rewrite or similar? I wonder whether something there is causing problems.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

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The webserver is sitting behing a reverse proxy so we figured that to be the problem.

See: OJS 3 behind reverse proxy - how to achieve? - #17 by D_Schroeder_Micheel

Now I am facing problems with the upload to the public directory (cover for an issue). Not sure if this is related to the whole SSL thing though.

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Hi @D_Schroeder_Micheel,

That’s likely a problem with file permissions in your public directory. Check the FAQ area of this forum for some discussion of file permissions.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

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Thanks for pointing me towards the solution! I have checked the error logged which showed that OJS couldn’t write into the temp directory.

Thanks again!