[Plugin: WordPress HTTPS (SSL)] 502 Proxy Error

Resolved timbunch
(@timbunch)

14 years, 1 month ago
I have random 502 proxy errors after activating this plugin.
```
Proxy Error

The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server.
The proxy server could not handle the request GET /.

Reason: Error reading from remote server
```
This is inconsistent behavior and does not happen on every page load. It ceases to happen when I deactivate the plugin.

This appears to be a request time out issue. But I am unsure what could be causing it.

It is not a new bug with the new release. It was happening before as well.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-https/

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Thread Starter timbunch
(@timbunch)

13 years, 12 months ago

There are two ways to solve this.

1. Switch everything to SSL and stop using this plugin (which I did)
2. Switch to a different product or web host (which I am making plans to do)

Rackspace Cloud Sites has been too unstable for us and we cannot afford to go down for hours at a time, or deal with configuration issues with their poor SSL support.

stimsonm
(@stimsonm)

13 years, 12 months ago

Thanks for your response, yes in the brief time I’ve been there I’ve had little bits of outages and this proxy thing which I can’t deal with so I’m switching to media temple they have a dedicated vps with more bandwidth and its cheaper and a full plesk control panel and root access, hopefully this will solve the issue, if not I’ll be back. Good luck to you.

Thanks

Matt
(@mvincik)

13 years, 2 months ago

Your other option is to add conditional coding around elements to have them switch to https. I have done this on many sites. I use the wordpress-https plugin which handles most of the plugin elements.

You can get http watch pro which is an add-in for your browser which will tell you which elements are not being served in a secure manner.

Anything else I hard code a switch like this:
‘
<?php if ( !is_page(‘shopping-cart’) ) { ?>
<img src=”http://www.yourwebsite.com/yourimage.jpg” />
<?php } else { ?>
<img src=”https://www.yourwebsite.com/yourimage.jpg” />
<?php } ?>
‘

This code basically says if you are on any page except the /shopping-cart/ page do this, otherwise do this.

You can rewrite that differently if it bothers you but this works for me. I preferred using !is_page excluding the one page rather than using is_page and including only the pages I want to have the https show up on.

I don’t have the proxy problem any more and I was able to eliminate a plugin so this worked. Hope it helps!