Wordpress inside docker container behind nginx proxy with ssl

Finally, I found the solution. The reverse proxy was working well.The problem was in the wordpress configuration which is waiting for $_SERVER['HTTPS'] = 'on'. But as I am working on nginx inside my container, wordpress keep redirecting the website on HTTPS.

So I just set $_SERVER['HTTPS'] = 'on'; at the top of wp-config.php and that's it.

Hope this can help sometime.

You are getting too many redirects because you're listening on 443:

listen *:443 ssl;

And redirecting to 443

proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto https;

Remove this line from your nginx.conf:

proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto https; 

Just had a similar problem setting everything up. Below is an example YAML file that worked for me.

version: '2'services:  wordpress:    image: wordpress    ports:      - 8080:80    environment:      WORDPRESS_DB_PASSWORD: MyPassword      VIRTUAL_HOST: example.com # replace with real domain      LETSENCRYPT_HOST: example.com # replace with real domain      LETSENCRYPT_EMAIL: email@email.com # replace with real email  mysql:    image: mysql:5.7    environment:      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: MyPassword  nginx-proxy:    image: jwilder/nginx-proxy    container_name: nginx-proxy    ports:      - 80:80      - 443:443    volumes:      - /etc/certs:/etc/nginx/certs:ro      - /var/run/docker.sock:/tmp/docker.sock:ro      - /etc/nginx/vhost.d      - /usr/share/nginx/html    labels:      com.github.jrcs.letsencrypt_nginx_proxy_companion.nginx_proxy: "true"  letsencrypt:    image: jrcs/letsencrypt-nginx-proxy-companion    container_name: letsencrypt    volumes:      - /etc/certs:/etc/nginx/certs:rw      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro    volumes_from:      - nginx-proxy