Laravel routes behind reverse proxy

Question

Ok, so for development purposes, we have a dedicated web server. It\'s not currently connected directly to the internet, so I\'ve setup an apache reverse proxy on another se

Answer 1

I ran into the same (or similar problem), when a Laravel 5 application was not aware of being behind an SSL load-balancer.

I have the following design:

• client talks to an SSL load balancer over HTTPS
• SSL load balancer talks to a back-end server over HTTP

That, however, causes all the URLs in the HTML code to be generated with http:// schema.

The following is a quick'n'dirty workaround to make this work, including the schema (http vs. https):

Place the following code on top of app/Http/routes.php

In latest version of laravel, use web/routes.php

$proxy_url    = getenv('PROXY_URL');
$proxy_schema = getenv('PROXY_SCHEMA');

if (!empty($proxy_url)) {
   URL::forceRootUrl($proxy_url);
}

if (!empty($proxy_schema)) {
   URL::forceSchema($proxy_schema);
}

then add the following line into .env file:

PROXY_URL = http://igateway.somedomain.com

If you also need to change schema in the generated HTML code from http:// to https://, just add the following line as well:

PROXY_SCHEMA = https

In latest version of laravel forceSchema method name has changed to forceScheme and the code above should look like this:

if (!empty($proxy_schema)) {
    URL::forceScheme($proxy_schema);
}