From 2781402ee6f1991c935d9e438757c2e88dd7e131 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rumbin Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 07:00:58 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] [doc] added setting X-Forwarded-Proto to https behind reverse proxy with ssl encryption; fixes #3655 (#3976) --- docs/installation.rst | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/installation.rst b/docs/installation.rst index cef5cb4e38aca..76b83c650659e 100644 --- a/docs/installation.rst +++ b/docs/installation.rst @@ -181,6 +181,11 @@ If the load balancer is inserting X-Forwarded-For/X-Forwarded-Proto headers, you should set `ENABLE_PROXY_FIX = True` in the superset config file to extract and use the headers. +In case that the reverse proxy is used for providing ssl encryption, +an explicit definition of the `X-Forwarded-Proto` may be required. +For the Apache webserver this can be set as follows: :: + + RequestHeader set X-Forwarded-Proto "https" Configuration -------------