staff client "too many" redirects" error when using nginx proxy

[Robert Soulliere]

EG version: 3.1.2
OpenSRF version: 3.0.1
Postgresql version: 9.5

Certain pages in the staff client return a "too many redirects" error when using nginx proxy as described in the docs. These include the Org unit and permission pages under Server Admin. This happens in both the webclient and old staff client.

Other pages work OK ad OPAC works OK.

One of the files causing the issue seems to be the grp_tree.html file.

I suspect that the nginx file (osrf-ws-http-proxy) needs to be tweaked to resolve this issue?

[Ben Shum (bshum)]

Robert, I think this is related to this bug in OpenSRF's documentation: https://bugs.launchpad.net/opensrf/+bug/1684970

The solution is to install the apache RPAF module. Let us know if it's the same issue and we can consolidate this bug with the other one.

[Bill Erickson (berick)]

Hi Robert,

Be sure any ServerName and ServerAlias entries in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/eg.conf use the public port (80 / 443) instead of the internal Apache listen port.

Eg..

<VirtualHost *:7443>
    DocumentRoot "/openils/var/web"
    ServerName localhost:443
    ServerAlias 127.0.0.1:443
    ....
</VirtualHost>