[incubator-superset] branch master updated: [doc] added setting X-Forwarded-Proto to https behind reverse proxy with ssl encryption; fixes #3655 (#3976)

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     new f10395b  [doc] added setting X-Forwarded-Proto to https behind reverse proxy with ssl encryption; fixes #3655 (#3976)
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commit f10395b2f755479f2f4b7b359feb80a2ba7e44b4
Author: rumbin <ru...@users.noreply.github.com>
AuthorDate: Mon Dec 4 07:00:58 2017 +0100

    [doc] added setting X-Forwarded-Proto to https behind reverse proxy with ssl encryption; fixes #3655 (#3976)
---
 docs/installation.rst | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/installation.rst b/docs/installation.rst
index cef5cb4..76b83c6 100644
--- a/docs/installation.rst
+++ b/docs/installation.rst
@@ -181,6 +181,11 @@ If the load balancer is inserting X-Forwarded-For/X-Forwarded-Proto headers, you
 should set `ENABLE_PROXY_FIX = True` in the superset config file to extract and use
 the headers.
 
+In case that the reverse proxy is used for providing ssl encryption, 
+an explicit definition of the `X-Forwarded-Proto` may be required.
+For the Apache webserver this can be set as follows: ::
+
+    RequestHeader set X-Forwarded-Proto "https"
 
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