Pasenger,rails-2.3.8,apache 2.2.21

Hello,

I am configuring apache 2.2 to serve my rails app through passenger. Im
trying to host in 3 tier architecture.Making web server alone in https ,
app server code is placed running in http.First, I’m redirect all http
traffic to https with the following:

This is my web server apache conf file.

ServerName sampleapp

NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost :80>
Options FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$
RewriteRule ^.
$ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R]

Inside the <VirtualHost *:443> section, I have the following
configuration, which seems extremely standard:

Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Deny from none
Allow from all

ProxyPreserveHost on

ErrorLog “/usr/local/apache2/logs/error_log”
TransferLog “/usr/local/apache2/logs/access_log”
SSLEngine on

<Proxy balancer://hotcluster>
BalancerMember http://appserver:8010/

ProxyPass / balancer://hotcluster/
ProxyPassReverse / balancer://hotcluster/

SSLCipherSuite
ALL:!ADH:!EXPORT56:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+LOW:+SSLv2:+EXP:+eNULL

SSLCertificateKeyFile “/home/sasi/test.key”

SSLCACertificateFile “/home/sasi/test.cer”

SSLCertificateChainFile “/home/sasi/test1.cer”

<FilesMatch “.(cgi|shtml|phtml|php)$”>
SSLOptions +StdEnvVars

<Directory “/usr/local/apache2/cgi-bin”>
SSLOptions +StdEnvVars

BrowserMatch “.MSIE.
nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown
downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0

CustomLog “/usr/local/apache2/logs/ssl_request_log”
“%t %h %{SSL_PROTOCOL}x %{SSL_CIPHER}x "%r" %b”

RequestHeader set X_FORWARDED_PROTO “https”

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$
RewriteRule ^.*$ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R]

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule ^/(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R]

ProxyRequests Off
<Proxy *>
    Order Allow,Deny
    Allow from all
    AuthType Basic
    AuthName Transmission
    AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/users

Require user me

</Proxy>

In my app server i point my application which runs with passenger ,
apache in 8010 port

<VirtualHost *:8010>
RailsEnv development
DocumentRoot /home/appserver/sampleapp/public

Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Order deny,allow Deny from none Allow from all ProxyPreserveHost on

RequestHeader set X_FORWARDED_PROTO “https”

ProxyPass /images !
ProxyPass /stylesheets !
ProxyPass /javascripts !

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^(HEAD|TRACE|DELETE|TRACK) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [F,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !^(OPTIONS|GET|POST)$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

When I point my browser to “https://sampleapp/session/new” I get the
login page that I expect. After giving the login credentials my site url
changes from https to http as (http://sampleapp/home) instead of staying
in (https://sampleapp/home). If i manually change the url to “https”. It
stays fully in https .

The way in which i have written rewrite condition in app server and web
server is right?

Can anybody suggest me .

Please Help!

Sasi

I’d put this in your <VirtualHost *:80> block instead of redirecting
based on port:

ssl redirect for any URL

RewriteCond %{SERVER_PROTOCOL} !^HTTPS
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}$1 [R]