How to use X-Forwarded-Proto in plone and still let VHM mapping direct to the right root

[djay (Dylan Jay)]

I've asked this here but I'll try here also

How to use X-Forwarded-Proto in plone and still let VHM mapping direct to the right root

I am running behind a CDN that turns my https request into http and sets X-Forwarded-Proto.

I know in nginx I can create a rule that rewrites my request as localhost:8080/VirtualRequestBase/https/realsite.com:80/VirtualHostRoot/siteroot so that urls come out right.

However I have a zope setup where I keep many sites and I don't want to have to change the nginx config every time I add a new one. I normally use the VHM mappings tab to map domains to siteroots, however it will ignore the VirtualHostBase directive in the path. In addition you can mix the two styles of VHM, ie set localhost:8080/VirtualRequestBase/https/realsite.com:80 and expect it use the mappings.

[pigeonflight (David Bain (Will Theme Plone Sites))]

@djay,
Firstly I believe it should be:
VirtualHostBase instead of VirtualRequestBase (not familiar with VirtualRequestBase)
and 443 instead of 80

localhost:8080/VirtualHostBase/https/realsite.com:443/VirtualHostRoot/siteroot ...?

I've had some success doing something similar with virtual_hosting see notes here:

TTW configuration of virtual_hosting mapping to serve Plone site over https

Normally I do this in Apache or nginx with a rewrite like this: RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://localhost:8080/VirtualHostBase/https/yoursite.com:443/Plone/VirtualHostRoot/$1 [P,L] Today I'm working with the TTW virtual_hosting (no access to configure the proxy). Is there a way to set a mapping in {myinstance}/virtual_hosting/ so that https will work?

[djay (Dylan Jay)]

Thats strange. What version of plone are you using? I tested this and confirmed that the code ignores virtualhostbase in mappings tab in plone 4.3. I will recheck it.