OJS 3 behind reverse proxy - how to achieve?

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Hi @asmecher,

turning on force_ssl does not do any good because then you get a redirect loop:
OJS sees an HTTP request (not knowing it’s coming from the reverse-proxy) and redirects the browser to the HTTPS location. So the browser makes a new request (using HTTPS as before) to the reverse-proxy resulting in a new HTTP request to the OJS backend which redirects to HTTPS again. And so on and so forth.

Greetings
Hermann

PS: For the time being and as a workaround I changed PKPRequest.inc.php:

@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@
         * @param $allowProtocolRelative boolean True iff protocol-relative URLs are allowed
         * @return string
         */
-       function getBaseUrl($allowProtocolRelative = false) {
+       function getBaseUrl($allowProtocolRelative = true) {
                $_this =& PKPRequest::_checkThis();
 
                $serverHost = $_this->getServerHost(false);
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