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Hi all and especially @stephdl on holiday in the canyon,

After 3 weeks of struggle: installation, reinstallation, standard Discourse, nethserver-discourse, Apache disable / Nginx, Nginx only, HAProxxy, Apache only, I finally found the cause of the warning in the URL bar and the unable to reconnect after “force https”.

With standard Discourse:

The warning in the URL bar is due to the installation of the Logo

  1. It is absolutely necessary not to install the logo when connecting to Discourse for the first time.

  2. You must install the logo only after the configuration is complete with Settings → Branding.

  3. To correct the situation:

  • Remove logo in Settings → Branding.
  • Reinstall the logo in Settings → Branding.

Not able to login is due to Apache

In the file: /etc/httpd/conf.d/zzz_discourse.conf, just before the line ProxyPass, add this line:

 RequestHeader set X-Forwarded-Proto "https"

Restart Apache

# systemctl restart httpd

‡ It should be the same with nethserver-discourse and NGINX /etc/nginx/conf.d/zzz_discourse.conf

force https

  • Settings → Security → activate “force https”.
  • Finally reboot to make absolutely sure everything is working perfectly.

image Complete victory, let us raise the banner of victory.

An how-to will follow soon,

Michel-André

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