Jira behind Nginx and AWS ALB

[Sajan Kumar Devarakonda]

We installed Jira on EC2 and offloading SSL in AWS ALB(Application Load Balancer). On EC2 we installed Nginx for performance benefits. So the request goes from client -> AWS ALB (80)-> Nginx (8888)-> Jira (8080).

We are forwarding all HTTP requests to HTTPS in ALB only.

I'm forwarding all requests from Nginx to Jira using the Nginx setting

proxy_pass https://localhost:8080

I tried it in two different ways,

1) I changed server.xml by adding proxy address and port to ALB address (Considering ALB as proxy )

The problem is when we enter the ALB URL, It is not redirecting to Jira default page i.e https://server_name/secure/Dashboard.jspa instead it is redirecting to "/secure/error.jsp" stating the database configuration is incorrect. But when we hit the Jira default Url directly it serving the page correctly.

2) I changed server.xml by adding the proxy address as "localhost" (Considering Nginx as proxy )

  All my URLs are pointing http://server_name:8888/secure/Dashboard.jspa (which is invalid as my ALB running on port 80) instead of http://server_name/secure/Dashboard.jspa

How do I configure Jira which is behind Nginx and AWS ELB?