[Grok-dev] grok problems using https behind apache using mod_wsgi

[Päivi Rosenström]

Hi!

I'm beginner with grok and I try to set grok to run behind apache  
using wsgi. I run into following problems.

Application developed using grok runs smoothly with paster server.  I  
also managed to get it run behind Apache with mod_wsgi while  
connecting the application  using http.  But while attempting to  
connect with https, the next click sets the protocol back to http.  
This was with the configuration where application could have been used  
either by http or https.


After this I attempted to force the application to use https with the  
following Apache configuration:

httpd.conf:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Global section:
WSGIPythonHome /usr
WSGISocketPrefix /var/run/wsgi

<VirtualHost *:80>
          ServerName application.domain.com
          WSGIDaemonProcess grok user=xxx group=xxx threads=4
  maximum-requests=10000 python-eggs=/tmp/python-eggs
          WSGIProcessGroup grok
          RewriteEngine on
          RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
          RewriteRule   ^/(.*)$  https://application.domain.com/$1   
[QSA,NC,R,L]
</VirtualHost>
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
ssl.conf:
<VirtualHost *:443>
         ServerName application.domain.com
         SSLEngine On
         SSLCertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/xxxxxxx.crt
         SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/pki/tls/private/xxxxxxxx


         WSGIScriptAlias / /home/xxx/xxx/parts/wsgi_app/wsgi
         WSGIProcessGroup grok
         WSGIPassAuthorization On
         WSGIScriptReloading On
</VirtualHost>
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Problem with this is that I'm able to browse the pages and I get log  
information concerning it, but attempt to use forms in the application  
does nothing = no error messages to logs (grok logs, or apache logs)  
but no functionality also !

So any help would be appreciated. I really need to get the application  
working using https. Is there a way to tell grok to use only https? or  
do I need some wsgi middleware to get this work ? Or is there only  
something wrong with my Apache configuration ?

Thanks in advance !

Päivi Rosenström