403 on browser with Apache reverse proxy

[vhbelvadi]

I've installed Plausible-CE on a subdomain following the README and reverse proxy instructions for Apache2 which already runs on my server and is listening to port 80. I've also checked that docker-proxy is listening on 8000.

When I run curl --head http://localhost:8000 I get the following:

HTTP/1.1 302 Found
...

instead of a 200. And with the .conf file exactly as mentioned on the reverse proxy instructions, and with apache2 restarted, I see a 403 Forbidden error on the browser.

[ruslandoga]

👋 @vhbelvadi

Please share the full HTTP response.

[vhbelvadi]

@ruslandoga Since I posted here I managed to narrow down the issue to the .conf file. The one posted in the repo didn't work for me and after some cobbling together this one did—I'm not sure there are no mistakes in this because this is my first time but it does work as expected:

<VirtualHost ipaddress:443>
    ServerName sub.domain.tld
    ServerAdmin user@domain.tld

    SSLEngine On
    SSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/location/fullchain.pem
    SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/location/privkey.pem

    # Reverse Proxy
    SSLProxyEngine Off
    SSLProxyVerify none
    SSLProxyCheckPeerCN off
    SSLProxyCheckPeerName off
    SSLProxyCheckPeerExpire off

    <Location />
        ProxyPass http://localhost:####/ retry=0 upgrade=websocket
        ProxyPassReverse http://localhost:####/
    </Location>

        Include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-apache.conf
        SSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/location/fullchain.pem
        SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/location/privkey.pem
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost ipaddress:80>
    ServerName sub.domain.tld
    Redirect permanent / https://sub.domain.tld/

    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =sub.domain.tld
    RewriteRule ^ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [END,NE,R=permanent]
</VirtualHost>

Needless to say the #### needs to match whatever is set in the .env file.