Using HTTPS

[Brady.Gunn_Anishinabek]

I am running a next.js application and using a reverse proxy to point the domain to the port the application is running on.

How would I make the app use https over http, or would this be done through next.js?

 

[cPRex]

Hey hey! In the example we worked with earlier, https://support.cpanel.net/hc/en-us...reate-an-Apache-Reverse-Proxy-with-mod-proxy-, it does mention it works with AutoSSL. Are you currently not able to make an https connection to your proxy you've configured? If so, it might be best to create a ticket with our team so we can check that directly on your system

 

[Brady.Gunn_Anishinabek]

Is there anything special I need to do in the include to make it https?

 

[cPRex]

There shoudn't be, no.

As an example, when a cPanel user installs nginx, we setup an internal proxy. Nginx listens publicly on ports 80 and 443, but the Apache configuration is updated to use ports 81 and 444 so it can still delivery unsecured and secured content. As long as the port you're forwarding to is something that is listening for https connections, I'd expect that to work.

If the port is a different service, there may need to be some manual configuration to ensure Apache can still deliver an SSL.

 

[Brady.Gunn_Anishinabek]

I reverseproxyed the app from the port it is running on to www.subdomain.ca without a specified port. It works when I don't add https:// but when I do it gives me a "500 Internal Server Error"

 

[cPRex]

Do you see anything additional in the Apache logs when the 500 error happens?

 

[Brady.Gunn_Anishinabek]

Error Logs:
'
[Fri Mar 31 08:06:30.776104 2023] [autoindex:error] [pid 13911:tid 47315928778496] [client [MY IP]] AH01276: Cannot serve directory /home/[USER]/public_html/[SUBDOMAIN]/: No matching DirectoryIndex (index.php,index.php8,index.php7,index.php5,index.perl,index.pl,index.plx,index.ppl,index.cgi,index.jsp,index.jp,index.phtml,index.shtml,index.xhtml,index.html,index.htm,index.js) found, and server-generated dir$
[Fri Mar 31 08:06:30.776462 2023] [core:error] [pid 13911:tid 47315928778496] [client [MY IP] AH00124: Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error. Use 'LimitInternalRecursion' to increase the limit if necessary. Use 'LogLevel debug' to get a backtrace.
'

 

[cPRex]

Do you have an index file in the directory that is mentioned? That error indicates you may not.

The second error is usually a problem with a .htaccess file having too many redirects.

 

[Brady.Gunn_Anishinabek]

So because I am using a reverse proxy to run an app from a different port to the subdomain I didn't think I needed anything on the folder of the subdomain. Do I need an index in there, if so what do I put in it?

 

[cPRex]

The web content is still served from the same location, so all your normal web files would need to be at that location, or you'll need to specify an alternative index page using the .htaccess file and the DirectoryIndex directive.

 

[Brady.Gunn_Anishinabek]

But it still works when going to the address without https, so why wouldnt it work with https?

 

[cPRex]

The connections are served over a different port. It might be best to submit a ticket to our team so we can check the configuration directly.