Yii reverse proxy site

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

I’ve developped a simple test site that works fine internally but when I publish it it’s accessible only via a reverse proxy.

So internally the site runs on http://webserver:8087/

Externally to access it you goto https://webserver/mytestsite

Now the first page loads fine after i redid the css and image links to refer to the correct file without the starting slash. But when I in the controller for example do:


$this->redirect(array("site/somepage", 'sid'=>$value));

It will redirect to: https://webserver/index.php?r=site/somepage&sid=1 <-- wrong

instead of https://webserver/mytestsite/index.php?r=site/somepage&sid=1 <— correct

How would you guys recommend I fix this ?

2

What exactly is the problem, that you loose 8087?

That is strange, I have a working copy that use localhost:8080 and all works properly.

Maybe is just a problem of host configuration on your machine, why don’t you change the internal name to something else, like localhost or anything different to webserver?

3

Found one way to do this in main.php the config file:


'request'=>array(

            'enableCsrfValidation'=>true,

			'hostInfo'=>'https://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_HOST'].'/<sitefolder>/'

        ),

It doesn’t work for everything but the main site navigation stuff works now so thats the most important part.

4

The above links got shortened so that kind of ruined the point. The problem is that it if the extranal site is located behind a reverse proxy and you need to refer to it as https://somedomain/sitename and internally you can access it at http://webdevelopment:<port> so the sitename part is needed externally and internally it’s the root folder.

so instead of https://somedomain/sitename/index.php you end up at https://somedomain/index.php and at the root of the address there is a different reverse proxy configuration and it points to a different internal address.

5

Hi Bent, were you able to solve this?

I am having exactly the same problem. Trying to reverse proxy through a subdirectory.