Deploy dashboard with nginx

Parse Dashboard
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I’m currently migrating our Parse backend to AWS. I have Parse and Nginx deployed in Docker containers with the following Nginx setup:

    location / {
        proxy_set_header   Host ${API_HOSTNAME};
        proxy_set_header   X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-Host $server_name;
        proxy_pass         http://${API_HOSTNAME}:${API_PORT}/;
    }

And when setting up the Parse server I use http://localhost:${API_PORT} as the serverURL. If I try to use the public URL as the serverURL it tries to connect before the nginx container is deployed.

So even though I access Parse via https the internal connection is only on http.

When I try to launch the Parse Dashboard I get the error Parse Dashboard can only be remotely accessed via HTTPS.

Not sure what to do here to get it to work. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

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In the future if anyone is reading this - apparently all it takes is reading the documentation properly: https://github.com/parse-community/parse-dashboard#security-considerations

I needed to set trustProxy: 1 in the dashboard config and that was enough to get it to work.

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