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Hi all. I'm loving FlatPress, but I've got a problem running my blog behind a reverse proxy.

My server is running at my house so I control everything. Connecting to FlatPress within my network works fine (e.g. http://192.168.1.100/blog), but when I try to connect from the external domain (e.g. http://blog.domain.com) through the proxy, the blog connects okay but CSS doesn't work and all links forward to the internal network IP.

This happens routinely when configuring websites with my setup. Generally, I only need to tell an install to make the site URL " / " because the reverse proxy drops traffic right into the site's root directory and doesn't need the website to specify a URL, but I can't make it work with FlatPress. I've tried re-running the installer several times with different URL settings, and I've even tried editing the PHP files directly, but nothing seems to change the site's behavior.

What can I do to get things working? Thanks in advance for your help.

are you using nginx ?

Hello mike,

welcome on board.
Does the reverse proxy and the web server at your home actually use HTTP (port 80)? Does the problem still exist if you use HTTPS (port 443)?

I recommend you to check the accessibility with these tools. Also check the following points. Feel free to give feedback here.

With best regards
Frank

Hi,

did you try to simply set your FlatPress blog URL to https://blog.domain.com ?

All the best,
Arvid

Hi,

I have the same issue. I am behind Nginx Proxy Manager running FlatPress on a docker. The issue here is that you mix http and https. On a local net the data goes as http and outside gets encrypted.

This is how the page looks like: If I change the code line 128 in the file defaults.php to This works if access from wan but it breaks it for lan access.

If another condition is added to that if block to handle mix of http and https would fix the issue, I guess.

Thank you for great work flatpress team.

Cheers
Delta_Tango

Hello delta_tango,

is the problem solved if you disable public and local IPv4 and only use IPv6?

With best regards
Frank