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Your LimeSurvey version: 6.1.0+230522
Own server or LimeSurvey hosting: kubernetes 1.24
Survey theme/template: default
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Hi there! I hope you're doing well. I'm currently wondering a few things about configuring LimeSurvey behind Caddy. Here are the details of my hosting setup:
- Caddy (docker.io/caddy:2.6.3) is a web proxy and handles SSL/TLS certificate generation at runtime
- We have the usual setup for kubernetes: services, deployments, and volumes for LimeSurvey
- Here's the Caddyfile we're currently using:
Code:
# Global configuration
{
# Enable proxying from all servers by default. Otherwise, X-Forwarded-* headers will
# be overwritten.
servers {
trusted_proxies static 0.0.0.0/0 ::/0
}
}
# proxy directive snippet (with logging) to be used as follows:
#
# import proxy "containername:port"
(proxy) {
log {
output stdout
format filter {
wrap json
fields {
common_log delete
request>headers delete
resp_headers delete
tls delete
}
}
}
# This will compress requests that matches the default criteria set by Caddy.
# see https://caddyserver.com/docs/caddyfile/directives/encode
# for information about the defaults; i.e. how/when this will be applied.
encode gzip
reverse_proxy {args.0} {
header_up X-Forwarded-Port 443
}
}
limesurvey.subdomain{$default_site_port} {
import proxy "limesurvey:80"
}
With this configuration, I can access LimeSurvey through the browser without issues. But then I found that LimeSurvey has some specific settings to be configured when working behind a proxy. I referred to the LimeSurvey configuration file
config-defaults.php
and added the following lines to my
file:
Code:
// Use the following config variable to set modified optional settings copied from config-defaults.php
'config' => array(
...
'proxy_host_name' => 'limesurvey.subdomain',
'proxy_host_port' => 443,
)
My question is: when is this configuration needed?
I would greatly appreciate any guidance or suggestions on properly configuring LimeSurvey behind Caddy as a reverse proxy. Thank you in advance for your assistance!
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