Nginx configuration leads to endless redirect loop

Question

So I\'ve looked at every sample configuration I could find and yet every time I try and view a page that requires ssl, I end up in an redirect loop. I\'m running nginx/0.8.5

Answer 1

I found that it was this line

 proxy_set_header  Host $http_host;

Which should be changed to

 proxy_set_header  Host $host;

According to the nginx documentation by using '$http_host you're passing the "unchanged request-header".