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O-tree is a web-based software that uses websockets. I have it working on http://server.example:81 and I want it to be in https://server.example. It almost works with

<Location />
    ProxyPreserveHost On
    RequestHeader set X-Forwarded-Proto "https"
    ProxyPass "ws://localhost:81/"
    ProxyPass "http://localhost:81/"
</Location>

However I got an error about GET wss://server.example/create_demo_session. Hence I suppose I should somehow say "no https for ws, please". If I let out X-Forwarded-Proto-part, then the front page gives links to http://server.example instead of https://server.example.

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You can differentiate between WSS and HTTPS requests and do different proxying for them. This is the rule I used when I built a music player with a Raspberry Pi:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Upgrade} websocket [NC]
RewriteRule /(.*) ws://localhost:81/$1 [P,L]
RewriteRule /(.*) http://localhost:81/$1 [P,L]

The RewriteCond tests if the request is wss: and forwards those requests over ws:, other requests use the http: proxy rule.

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  • I accepted this, as this is almost perfect now. For some reason I had to put this inside <Directory> block, but that is something related to our base settings in RHEL servers. I must use ...myserver/demo as address to get this working; otherwise it shows GET /index.html HTTP/1.1" 404 Not Found in the Otree output.
    – Jori Mäntysalo
    Commented Jan 2, 2023 at 19:17

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