Reverse Proxy with Nginx

Siecje

 I'm trying to setup a reverse proxy so that I can access jira through jira.mydomain.com

On the dashboard the gadgets don't load and I see a banner that says.

"I have added those line exactly (leaving $host as is) in the location / { section.

I restarted nginx, I can't restart jira. When I go to the page I see the gadgets are not visable and I have a banner that reads "JIRA's base URL is set to http://jira.mydomain.com but you are accessing JIRA from http://jira.mydomain.com."

 

nginx conf

server {
    server_name jira.mydomain.com;
    #to allow large uploads (eg: for restoring backups)...
    client_max_body_size 100M;
    location / {
        proxy_pass http://localhost:8080;
    }
}

server.xml

<Service name="Catalina">

        <Connector port="8080"

                   maxThreads="150"
                   minSpareThreads="25"
                   connectionTimeout="20000"

                   enableLookups="false"
                   maxHttpHeaderSize="8192"
                   protocol="HTTP/1.1"
                   useBodyEncodingForURI="true"
                   redirectPort="8443"
                   acceptCount="100"
                   disableUploadTimeout="true"
                   
                   scheme="http"
                   proxyHost="jira.mydomain.com"
                   proxyName="jira.mydomain.com"
                   proxyPort="80"
        />

 

JIRA will not start.

sudo service jira start

If I view the dashboard the widgets say "Unable to connect"

In the logs I see "Detected URL hostname, 'localhost', does not match expected hostname 'jira.mydomain.com'

Where does the 'localhost' come from?

Giuliano C.

Hi Cody, 

 

There's some JIRA docs that could help you on this matter. For example, if you take a look at this article you will see that the cause could be related to the Apache server not identifying the current host to be redirected. Also, I could find some related Answers posts that could be kindly related to your situations. Some suggesting to add a ProxyPreserveHost On in the Apache Virtual host and others related to make the proxy reverse value to be "off".

 

These examples came from the following answers:

 

https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/25460

https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/16218

 

Hope it helps you, sir!

 

Cheers, 

Giu