Redirect Loop - Cannot Finish Installation

  • What’s your URL? eris.gg

  • What version of Ghost are you using? 1.17.1 CLI, 4.5.0 website

  • How was Ghost installed and configured? Using ghost CLI. SSL was used, nginx was automatically setup

  • What Node version, database, OS & browser are you using? Node v14.17.0 with MySQL v8.0.25 on Ubuntu version 20.04

  • What errors or information do you see in the console? None

  • What steps could someone else take to reproduce the issue you’re having? Visit the site - it gets a redirect error. Trying to visit https://eris.gg/ghost/ yields the same result.

nginx config:

user www-data;
worker_processes auto;
pid /run/nginx.pid;
include /etc/nginx/modules-enabled/*.conf;

events {
       worker_connections 768;
       # multi_accept on;
}

http {

       ##
       # Basic Settings
       ##

       sendfile on;
       tcp_nopush on;
       tcp_nodelay on;
       keepalive_timeout 65;
       types_hash_max_size 2048;
       # server_tokens off;

       # server_names_hash_bucket_size 64;
       # server_name_in_redirect off;

       include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
       default_type application/octet-stream;

       ##
       # SSL Settings
       ##

       ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2 TLSv1.3; # Dropping SSLv3, ref: POODLE
       ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;

       ##
       # Logging Settings
       ##

       access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
       error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;

       ##
       # Gzip Settings
       ##

       gzip on;

       # gzip_vary on;
       # gzip_proxied any;
       # gzip_comp_level 6;
       # gzip_buffers 16 8k;
       # gzip_http_version 1.1;
       # gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json application/javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;

       ##
       # Virtual Host Configs
       ##

       include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
       include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
}


#mail {
#       # See sample authentication script at:
#       # http://wiki.nginx.org/ImapAuthenticateWithApachePhpScript
#
#       # auth_http localhost/auth.php;
#       # pop3_capabilities "TOP" "USER";
#       # imap_capabilities "IMAP4rev1" "UIDPLUS";
#
#       server {
#               listen     localhost:110;
#               protocol   pop3;
#               proxy      on;
#       }
#
#       server {
#               listen     localhost:143;
#               protocol   imap;
#               proxy      on;
#       }
#}

sites available config:

server {
    listen 80;
    listen [::]:80;

    server_name eris.gg;
    root /var/www/erisgg/system/nginx-root; # Used for acme.sh SSL verification (https://acme.sh)

    location / {
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:2368;
    }

    location ~ /.well-known {
        allow all;
    }

    client_max_body_size 50m;
}

sites available ssl config:

server {
    listen 443 ssl http2;
    listen [::]:443 ssl http2;

    server_name eris.gg;
    root /var/www/erisgg/system/nginx-root; # Used for acme.sh SSL verification (https://acme.sh)

    ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/eris.gg/fullchain.cer;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/eris.gg/eris.gg.key;
    include /etc/nginx/snippets/ssl-params.conf;

    location / {
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:2368;

    }

    location ~ /.well-known {
        allow all;
    }

    client_max_body_size 50m;
}

Any and all help is appreciated. Sorry for the repeat question, it is just that I already have X-Forwarded-Proto header that all the posts seem to allude to, unless I am missing something big.

Thanks for the help

Found the answer here: Bug: Setting url: to https in config.js causes a redirect loop · Issue #2796 · TryGhost/Ghost · GitHub

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