n7okn

I got this EXACT problem figured out, and I finally got all iterations of URL’s to work listed at the bottom.
Here is the code that works for me.

Proxy:

<VirtualHost *:80>

   ServerName test.x.com
   ServerAlias www.test.x.com
   Redirect / https://test.x.com/

</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:443>

   ServerName test.x.com
   ServerAlias www.test.x.com

   Redirect /www.test.x.com/ /test.x.com/

   RequestHeader set X-Forwarded-Proto "https"
   RequestHeader set X-Forwarded-Port "443"

   <Proxy *>
        Order deny,allow
        Allow from all
   </Proxy>

   ProxyPreserveHost On
   SSLProxyEngine on
   ProxyPass / https://192.168.1.19:80/
   ProxyPassReverse / https://192.168.1.19:80/   

   SSLEngine on
   Include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-apache.conf
   SSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/x.com-0002/fullchain.pem
   SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/x.com-0002/privkey.pem

</VirtualHost>

This is the end server:

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /var/www/html
</VirtualHost>

In the wp-config.php file, you have to add:

if (!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO']) && $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO'] === 'https') {
	$_SERVER['HTTPS'] = 'on';
}

That’s it. That’s the magic formula that finally made everything work:

https://www.x.test.com
https://www.x.test.com/wp-admin
https://x.test.com
https://x.test.com/wp-admin
https://www.x.test.com
https://www.x.test.com/wp-admin
https://x.test.com
https://x.test.com/wp-admin

This is a setup for 4 domains on 4 raspberry Pi’s, one of them performing proxy, the other 3 on their own proxied boxes.

I hope this helps someone. I found Apache very simple, but so many out there had code that broke when trying to go to /wp-admin or enter www. The last puzzle was to fix the fact that my cert didn’t support www subdomain, therefore the redirect in the :443 section.

The live site that uses this is test.qso.com and you can see how this code works just as described.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 8 months ago by n7okn.
• This reply was modified 2 years, 8 months ago by n7okn.
• This reply was modified 2 years, 8 months ago by n7okn.

Thank you for showing me that plug-in. I may end up using that.
What I really wanted to find out is where to tell my right blog bar which category to display, and then on another page, to tell the right blog bar the posts in a different category. Otherwise I don’t see the point of categories if you can’t separate the posts.
Also I did find the way to make the URL of a category, simply “/?cat=foo” and that does work. Can I make “foo” blog page to have the same look as my right blog bar?