Laravel 4: setting correct scheme and domain for pagination and form

Question

This is probably an oversight on my part, but I am wondering what's the correct way to set the default pagenate base url.

Our domain is on https://domain.com and we have set config app.url as such, but pagination still appear to use http://domain.com (note the scheme is http instead of https ) when generating url in view. I am wondering how to do this without writing setBaseUrl everywhere.

(We are using Laravel 4.1)

Update : we got the same problem with Form::open as well, where is the setting that make Laravel realize we want url with https instead of http ? Shouldn't it be using app.url as a base url?

Answer 1

Figure out the answer myself:

Since our server is behind a reverse proxy (nginx), while content is served as HTTPS, the proxying is done with HTTP, so we should set following to nginx config:

proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto  $scheme; //or just `https`

(same as your proxy_pass upstream block)

Then we can use Trusting Proxies feature as such:

$proxies = Config::get('app.trusted_proxies');

// trust any balancer
if ($proxies === '*')
{
    $proxies = array( Request::getClientIp() );
}

// else trust an array of IPs
if ($proxies && is_array($proxies))
{
    Request::setTrustedProxies($proxies);
}

(This can be added to bootstrap/start.php . Laravel use Symfony Request library, which is why we linked to their document, as this feature is not documented in Laravel docs)