"http" instead of "https" during submission process

[nmueller18]

During submission via Fiduswriter to OJS, two rows are added to the backend-MySQL-table "submission_settings" that handle the communication between FW and OJS. It appears that in the row for the address of the FW-server, the URL erroneously starts with "http:". This leads to an error 500 when clicking on the Fiduswriter-link in OJS. If changed manually to "https:", everything works as expected. The error might also originate in the fiduswriter-ojs-plugin.

[nmueller18]

The problem seems indeed to be related to the fiduswriter-ojs-plugin. In views.py, the line fidus_url = request.build_absolute_uri("/")[:-1] seems to generate the URL. If Fiduswriter is behind a nginx-server, the resulting URL will start with "http" instead of "https". A possible solution is explained here.
@johanneswilm : Perhaps this hint can be added to the installation procedure of fiduswriter regarding nginx?

[johanneswilm]

This "https" should already be set correctly if the installation contains "https" at the time when OJS and FW are connected with oneanother. This should only happen if the Fidus Writer server initially is installed at an address with "http://" and later on it is moved to "https://".

[johanneswilm]

I wonder - did you set this line:

proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;

In the nginx configuration as described here: https://github.com/fiduswriter/fiduswriter/wiki/Installation-and-configuration-on-Ubuntu-using-snap#proxy-fidus-writer-on-port-80-using-nginx

[nmueller18]

This "https" should already be set correctly if the installation contains "https" at the time when OJS and FW are connected with oneanother. This should only happen if the Fidus Writer server initially is installed at an address with "http://" and later on it is moved to "https://".

Ah, okay. I am still awaiting the response from our technical administrator if this is really the solution for the problem described above. Perhaps I should have been more patient ...