Getting HTTPS web interface for transmission with Lighttpd reverse proxy

Question

i'm trying to get HTTPS web interface for transmission. Currently i can access transmission web interface with http://myip:8081 and what i want is to connect with https://myip/transmission . i already setup my lighttpd with TSL/SSL so i can access to default index page at https://myip

I enabled mod_proxy

lighty-enable-mod proxy

Therefore, in /etc/lighttpd/conf-enabled, i have a 10-proxy.conf which is actually a symlink to /etc/lighttpd/conf-available/10-proxy.conf, and this file contains :

server.modules   += ( "mod_proxy" )

then in lighttpd.conf i added :

$SERVER["socket"] == "0.0.0.0:443" {
    ssl.engine  = "enable"
    ssl.pemfile = "/etc/lighttpd/certs/cert.pem"

    ssl.cipher-list = "ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:AES256-SHA256:RC4:HIGH:!MD5:!aNULL:!EDH:!AESGCM"
    ssl.honor-cipher-order = "enable"
}

$HTTP["url"] == "^/transmission/" {
        proxy.server = ("" => ( (
                "host" => "127.0.0.1",
                "port" => 8081 
        ))
  )
}

Then I reloaded lighttpd config

service lighttpd force-reload

Conf Syntax is OK but when i want to access to https://myip/transmission/ I've got a 404 not found page.

Answer 1

With the config given in the original question, lighttpd is sending the request to 127.0.0.1 port 8081 as "GET /transmission/ HTTP/1.1". If the transmission server expects the request to be "/" instead of "/transmission/", then see proxy.header "map-urlpath" available in lighttpd 1.4.46 and later. https://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/wiki/Docs_ModProxy