HP behind Lighttpd reverse https-proxy redirects to https://127.0.0.1/BASEURL

[maxkoryukov]

I have a HP installation behind Lighttpd reverse proxy.

Here is a part of HP config:

[General]
# ....

http_proxy = 1
http_root = /headphones

# ....

HP listen for the port (lets assume 1234) on 127.0.0.1 .

But when I am trying to navigate to https://myserver.com/headphones I receive redirect to 127.0.0.1.

Here is curl log:

linux $ curl -k https://server.com/headphones/

This resource resides temporarily at <a href="https://127.0.0.1:8181/headphones/home">https://127.0.0.1:8181/headphones/home</a>.

linux $ curl -k https://server.com/headphones

This resource resides temporarily at <a href="https://127.0.0.1:8181/headphones/">https://127.0.0.1:8181/headphones/</a>.

Let me tell you: I have solved problem with some headers, so in lighttpd config I have:

$HTTP["url"] =~ "^/headphones($|/)" {

    setenv.add-request-header = (
        "X-Forwarded-Ssl" => "on"
    )

I am sure, the problem is between lighttpd and CherryPy (inside Headphones)

Does anybody know, what to do?

[maxkoryukov]

Looks, like It is similar to #2052

[maxkoryukov]

I know what the matter.

Lighttpd does not send required headers to the HP (it sends X-Host, but HP doesn't know about this...)

you could modify the sources of the HP (check next comment), or wait for merging of #2590, there is appropriate option for Lighttpd, Nginx, Apache

Thanks http://stackoverflow.com/a/36731981/1115187

[maxkoryukov]

you could modify sources:

file headphones/webstart.py:

## ....
## line 65
    logger.info("Starting Headphones web server on %s://%s:%d/", protocol,
                options['http_host'], options['http_port'])
    cherrypy.config.update(options_dict)

    conf = {
        '/': {
            'tools.staticdir.root': os.path.join(headphones.PROG_DIR, 'data'),
            'tools.proxy.on': options['http_proxy'],  # pay attention to X-Forwarded-Proto header
## add this (do not forget about comma on line above):
            'tools.proxy.local': 'X-Host'   ## FIX HERE !!!!
        },

[maxkoryukov]

or, tune your lighttpd to send appropriate header.

$HTTP["url"] =~ "^/headphones($|/)" {
    setenv.add-request-header = (
        "X-Forwarded-Host" => "http://your.host.com/"
    )
}

[maxkoryukov]

https://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/repository/revisions/master/entry/src/mod_proxy.c
line 460