Switching to https redirects blog to localhost and makes the blog not load

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  • What’s your URL? www.keplerobotics.in
  • What version of Ghost are you using? 3.17.1
  • What configuration? Production with https
  • What errors or information do you see in the console? None
  • What steps could someone else take to reproduce the issue you’re having? I cannot currently keep the website down as it’s a client’s website. But basically when converted to https the website will redirect to localhost

I am using the binami aws ghost image. When I setup https with Let’s Encrypt I saw that in pages with images I get mixed content warning. So after a bit of reading I saw you also have to change the url to https one. So after I did that the website redirects to localhost.

And I found that the solution was to setup a x-forwardes-proto header. But I am confused in where to do that. Although after a bit of reading I have added to the conf files which I think is the correct one, it’s still not working.

Here are the conf files:

htttp-app.conf
Include “/opt/bitnami/apps/ghost/conf/banner.conf”
ProxyPass /bitnami !
ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:2368/
ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:2368/

htttp-prefix.conf
# Include file

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond “%{HTTP_HOST}” ^ec2-([0-9]{1,3})-([0-9]{1,3})-([0-9]{1,3})-([0-9]{1,3})...amazonaws.com(:[0-9])?$
RewriteRule “^/?(.*)” “%{REQUEST_SCHEME}://%1.%2.%3.%4%5/$1” [L,R=302,NE]

Include “/opt/bitnami/apps/ghost/conf/httpd-app.conf”

htttp-vhosts.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName ghost.example.com
ServerAlias www.ghost.example.com
DocumentRoot “/opt/bitnami/apps/ghost/htdocs”

Include "/opt/bitnami/apps/ghost/conf/httpd-app.conf"
RequestHeader set X-Forwarded-Proto "http"  # I added this line

<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerName ghost.example.com
ServerAlias www.ghost.example.com
DocumentRoot “/opt/bitnami/apps/ghost/htdocs”
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile “/opt/bitnami/apps/ghost/conf/certs/server.crt”
SSLCertificateKeyFile “/opt/bitnami/apps/ghost/conf/certs/server.key”

Include "/opt/bitnami/apps/ghost/conf/httpd-app.conf"
RequestHeader set X-Forwarded-Proto "https" # I added this line
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If you change your URL to https, then you should only be sending https traffic to Ghost.

All http traffic should be redirected to https.

Bitnami have docs for this:

https://docs.bitnami.com/aws/apps/ghost/administration/force-https-apache/

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:hot_face: After two days of searching finally I found it, and I am literally jumping with happiness :partying_face: :partying_face: and crying on the inside thinking about the time I had lost. :cry:
Here’s the solution
GitHub - bitnami/vms: Bitnami VMs

Thanks

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Thank you @Hannah that was already done by a tool they provided and I had to do the solution I have specified too.