[support] SSL Log in with Drupal 7, Pound and Varnish

[Dan Horning]

I have to say that I'm likely clueless on exactly how this pound and varnish would work,  but here's a simple idea that should work

main pound and varnish runs on port 80
and connects to apache on port 8080

ssl pound and varnish runs on 443
and connects to apache on 8081

you should be able to preserve the ssl chain this way. 

most applications can work like this using multiple reverse proxy style setups (they need to rewrite the URL requests

if this part works the next step should be to set an ssl URL inside drupal sites/default/config

hopefully that helps, feel free to get in touch directly if you want our help more. 

ps. why not drop to another caching server and use something more versatile?
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-------- Original Message --------
From: Olivier Nicole <olivier.nicole at cs.ait.ac.th>
Sent: Fri Sep 27 00:16:20 EDT 2013
To: support at drupal.org
Subject: [support] SSL Log in with Drupal 7, Pound and Varnish

Hi,

I have an uncommon environment,I am using pound and varnish in front
of Apache (thanks to former site in Plone).

I want to have all the authentication/log in run through SSL.
Securepage module cannot do, because it detects that the Apache server
is not ding SSL. I tried to enable securepage by hand in settings.php
but it resulted in a loop: I am afraid securepage is too intelligent
and doing too much testing rather than simply changing from http to
https.

Any idea how I can solve my problem (beside rewritting any <form that
deals with user login)?

Eventually, pages displayed with https do not load the CSS. I could do
with some help on that too. You could see that at
https://www.cs.ait.ac.th/drupal7/

I apologize if my questions are naive, but it'd my first day at Drupal.

Best regards,

Olivier
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