Cherrypy application redirecting to http instead of https behind nginx

Question

I have a cherrypy webapp that I host behind an nginx reverse-proxy with ssl.

The nginx location is set up as such:

    location /webapp {
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8642;
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    }

Everything works when I load up https://myaddress.com/webapp. The page loads fine.

But when I click on any links, it opens http://myaddress.com/webapp/page, which doesn't load when behind nginx with ssl.

The links are a simple

<a href='/webapp/page'>Page</a>

I can then manually open https://myaddress.com/webapp/page which loads fine.

I can't figure out why the browser is kicking it over to http:// instead of staying on https://

EDIT:

I figured this out (kind of) a while ago and forgot about this post.

Changing the main method name from index() to default() fixed this. I can't figure out why, and I can't find anything in the CherryPy docs for it.

So when going to mysite.com/news Cherrypy now returns News.default() instead of News.index() and this doesn't change the URI.

Answer 1

Are you enabling the reverse proxy tool?

You can do so by adding into your config file:

tool.proxy.on = True

or by decorating.

@cherrypy.tools.proxy

Part of the functionality of that tool is to adjust the application base by adjusting the protocol from http to https.