Jenkins URL in System configuration and broken reverse proxy plugin error

[Esben Rugbjerg]

Hi,

I am putting my Jenkins server behind an nginx reverse proxy. I have a configuration of nginx which is working:

The important parts of the configuration:

server {

    location / {

          proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8084

          proxy_redirect     http://localhost  https://jenkins.example.com;

          proxy_redirect     http://          https://;

.....

Now when I set the 'Jenkins URL' in the system configuration of Jenkins is set to 

http://localhost:8084

everything seems to be working fine. But if I change the value to 

https://jenkins.example.com

which should be the correct one I get the 'It appears that your reverse proxy set up is broken' error message. This is very strange and I am worried that links in generated emails and such won't work if I use the localhost value.

What am I missing here ? What could be the problem ?

I am using Jenkins version 1.651

Regards 

Esben