When i try this out, HTTP_HOST has only the servername in it, no port.
And I don't see a way anywhere in the nginx documentation to get the
port that nginx got the request on.
On Oct 18, 3:52 am, "Graham Dumpleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hmmm, I am an idiot aren't I. If have:
>
> proxy_set_header Host $host;
>
> Then HTTP_HOST will have port 80/443 in it. The proxy_port is what the
> proxy is connecting to. Yes/No?
>
> Graham
>
> 2008/10/18 Graham Dumpleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > Can someone help me flesh out this nginx configuration, or tell me
> > whether doing things that aren't needed.
>
> > This is not for me, someone else is after it and want to understand
> > what is required.
>
> > What is desired is to have nginx in front of Apache/mod_wsgi. The
> > nginx would serve static files, and proxy dynamic requests to
> > Apache/mod_wsgi.
>
> > That bit is okay, but want nginx to listen for both HTTPS and HTTP requests.
>
> > If nginx accepts both HTTPS and HTTP inbound requests, but the proxy
> > connections to Apache/mod_wsgi uses HTTP, then on Apache/mod_wsgi side
> > wsgi.url_scheme will be http for both the original HTTPS and HTTP
> > requests. Thus WSGI application can't tell if original request
> > received by nginx was secure. Note am assuming here that nginx
> > connection to Apache/mod_wsgi is via localhost and on secure box.
>
> > My assumption here is that nothing else in headers passed from nginx
> > will indicate that original request was HTTPS.
>
> > One way I saw as away around this was to use on nginx side:
>
> > proxy_set_header X-Proxy-Host $proxy_host;
>
> > This would have effect of setting header in proxied request of form:
>
> > X-Proxy-Host: originalhost:80
>
> > for HTTP and:
>
> > X-Proxy-Host: originalhost:443
>
> > for HTTPS.
>
> > In the WSGI script file for Apache/mod_wsgi, could then use a WSGI
> > middleware to do something like:
>
> > def application(environ, start_response):
> > if environ['HTTP_X_PROXY_HOST'].split(':')[1] == '443':
> > environ['wsgi.url_scheme'] = 'https'
>
> > return _application(environ, start_response)
>
> > For nginx as front end to Apache/mod_wsgi does this make sense and/or
> > is there a better way of getting to the Apache/mod_wsgi a flag
> > indicating that original request was HTTPS rather than plain HTTP.
>
> > Graham
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