Settings forcing connections to HTTPS?

inspiredearth

• March 07, 2018 20:50

Hi.. I have added Redis and Nginx to a WHM/CP server, following the excellent instructions and scripts provided and recommended by @Jcats on this thread: There's one part where I've come a bit unstuck. According to the information It says, [QUOTE]Cloudflare's Flexible SSL option can cause redirect loops when combined with certain configurations. Because all requests are sent to origins over HTTP when Flexible SSL is selected, an origin configured to redirect HTTP requests to HTTPS will cause a redirect loop, causing browsers to display "The page isn"t redirecting properly" or "ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS". If you encounter this, you will need to remove redirects at your origin. Look for /

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  24x7server

  • March 08, 2018 04:10

  Hi,

  We have no relevant rewrite rules in the .htaccess files on the two sites. So I am assuming they are either occurring at a WHM Apache server level, or maybe in the Nginx plug-in.

  
  There is only 2 place where this can actually occur, one is at the .htaccess level and other is at the webserver level. I doubt that there would be such redirection looping set in the cPanel provided Apache.. However, there could be possibility of having it in the Nginx, so you have to check the Nginx settings once again to check for this.. What does the Nginx and Apache error logs suggests when the actual redirect error occurs? Open up to SSH login session and execute the below command one on each terminal and then browse the website where you see redirect loop.. # tail -f /usr/local/apache/logs/error_logs. # tail -f /var/log/nginx/error_logs On more thing you can try is try renaming the .htaccess file in the account to see if that provides any effect on the website regarding the redirect loop.. # mv .htaccess .htaccess-org

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  cPanelMichael

  • March 08, 2018 14:30

  I would like to know if there are any settings in WHM that might force HTTP requests over to HTTPS?

  
  Hello, There's nothing configured to force redirects by default in cPanel & WHM, except in the case of access attempts to cPanel/WHM/Webmail (see the "Redirection" section in "WHM >> Tweak Settings"). If you are using Engintron, check out their document here regarding the custom rules file: Engintron & the "Custom Rules" file (for Nginx) " engintron/engintron Wiki " GitHub Thank you.

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  inspiredearth

  • March 11, 2018 21:14

  . I've resolved it. The documentation for Engintron was incomplete (or obscure). It's now been updated to reflect the fact if you have an SSL certificate on the origin server, then SSL settings in CF must be set to "Strict", as opposed to the suggested "Flexible".

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