https problems

rubyonrails-talk
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I'm having a problem but don't know what is causing it so I don't know exactly where to post, please bear with me.

I'm trying to set up https access however whenever I go to https://url_for_site the root route renders but the url is rewritten to http://url_for_site. The ssl request shows in the apache logs but obviously no further ssl requests show up. I've tried several tutorials and ideas and nothing I do makes any difference.

I'm using Apache 2.2 with Mongrel on Windows.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks, Glen

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Please post your https virtualhost..

Do you have any .htaccess files anywhere?

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<VirtualHost _default_:443>   ServerName cnm746852.techno.tvinet:443   ServerAdmin lholcomb2@cnm.edu   TransferLog "C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation \Apache2.2\logs\ssl_transfer.log"   ErrorLog "C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\logs \ssl_error.log"   CustomLog "C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\logs \ssl_access.log" combined

  ProxyPass / http://localhost:3000/   ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:3000

  SSLEngine on

  RequestHeader set X_FORWARDED_PROTO 'https'

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

  SSLCertificateFile "C:/Documents and Settings\glen\workspace \user_accounts\host.cert"

  SSLCertificateKeyFile "C:/Documents and Settings\glen\workspace \user_accounts\host.key"

<FilesMatch "\.(cgi|shtml|phtml|php)$">     SSLOptions +StdEnvVars </FilesMatch> <Directory "C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/cgi- bin">     SSLOptions +StdEnvVars </Directory>

  BrowserMatch ".*MSIE.*" \          nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown \          downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0

  CustomLog "C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/ logs/ssl_request.log" \           "%t %h %{SSL_PROTOCOL}x %{SSL_CIPHER}x \"%r\" %b" </VirtualHost>

I haven't created any .htaccess files so if any they are defaults in default locations.

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Well, I seem to be running in circles. I'll try posting to the mongrel list maybe the problem lies there?

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Sorry was away.. Do you have any rails plugins installed?

If you try https://yourhost/images/someimage.jpg does that serve the image in https?

Is there anything in the rails log about redirect? or maybe the apache logs?

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Yes to all three.

I have will_paginate installed. Although as a gem not "as a plugin"

images are served in https

and in the log I get the following: Redirected to http://

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Glen could you post the entire message including the initial request from the rails log.

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Nevermind, that was a redirect due to a session timeout. Here is the rails log when I request the main page without the timeout issue (it still doesn't render https without the timeout):

Rendering C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.1.0/lib/ action_controller/templates/rescues/layout.erb (not_found)

Processing AuthenticationController#start (for 10.131.12.17 at 2008-10-21 14:10:55) [GET]   Session ID: 3df2ea2f70658b7e93b5f98d08b2b743   Parameters: {"action"=>"start", "controller"=>"authentication"} Rendering template within layouts/authentication Rendering authentication/start Completed in 0.01600 (62 reqs/sec) | Rendering: 0.01600 (100%) | DB: 0.00000 (0%) | 200 OK [http://cnm746852.techno.tvinet/\]

Processing AuthenticationController#start (for 10.131.12.17 at 2008-10-21 14:12:19) [GET]   Session ID: 3df2ea2f70658b7e93b5f98d08b2b743   Parameters: {"action"=>"start", "controller"=>"authentication"} Redirected to http://cnm746852.techno.tvinet/ Filter chain halted as [:ensure_proper_protocol] rendered_or_redirected. Completed in 0.00010 (10000 reqs/sec) | DB: 0.00000 (0%) | 302 Found [https://cnm746852.techno.tvinet/\]

Processing AuthenticationController#start (for 10.131.12.17 at 2008-10-21 14:12:22) [GET]   Session ID: 3df2ea2f70658b7e93b5f98d08b2b743   Parameters: {"action"=>"start", "controller"=>"authentication"} Rendering template within layouts/authentication Rendering authentication/start Completed in 0.01600 (62 reqs/sec) | Rendering: 0.00000 (0%) | DB: 0.00000 (0%) | 200 OK [http://cnm746852.techno.tvinet/\]