Cannot access airflow web server via AWS load balancer HTTPS because airflow redirects me to HTTP

Question

I have an airflow web server configured at EC2, it listens at port 8080.

I have an AWS ALB(application load balancer) in front of the EC2, listen at https 80 (facing

Answer 1

Finally I found a solution myself.

I introduced a nginx reverse proxy between ALB and airflow web server: ie. https request ->ALB:443 ->nginx proxy: 80 ->web server:8080. I make the nginx proxy tell the airflow web server that the original request is https not http by adding a http header "X-Forwarded-Proto https".

The nginx server is co-located with the web server. and I set the config of it as /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/vhost1.conf (see below). Besides, I deletes the /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default config file.

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name ;
    index index.html index.htm;
    location / {
      proxy_pass_header Authorization;
      proxy_pass http://localhost:8080;
      proxy_set_header Host $host;
      proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
      proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
      proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto https;
      proxy_http_version 1.1;
      proxy_redirect off;
      proxy_set_header Connection "";
      proxy_buffering off;
      client_max_body_size 0;
      proxy_read_timeout 36000s;
    }
}