Trying to run Ghost blog in https raise errors

Question

Hi,
I'm running my ghost blog in azure, and recently I decided to run it over https.
This is my config.js file and web.config. When I run the site in that way the site just show blank page.
Those are the supposed right configurations.
config.js
// ### Production
// When running Ghost in the wild, use the production environment
// Configure your URL and mail settings here
production: {
url: 'https://juank.io',
mail: {},
database: {
client: 'sqlite3',
connection: {
filename: path.join(__dirname, '/content/data/ghost.db')
debug: false
server: {
// Host to be passed to node's `net.Server#listen()`
host: '127.0.0.1',
// Port to be passed to node's `net.Server#listen()`, for iisnode set this to `process.env.PORT`
port: process.env.PORT
,forceAdminSSL: false
web.config
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<httpErrors existingResponse="PassThrough" />
<handlers>
<add name="iisnode" path="index.js" verb="*" modules="iisnode"/>
</handlers>
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="Force HTTPS" enabled="true">
<match url="(.*)" ignoreCase="false" />
<conditions>
<add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="off" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="https://{HTTP_HOST}/{R:1}" appendQueryString="true" redirectType="Permanent" />
</rule>
<rule name="StaticContent">
<action type="Rewrite" url="public{REQUEST_URI}"/>
</rule>
<rule name="DynamicContent">
<conditions>
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="True"/>
</conditions>
<action type="Rewrite" url="index.js"/>
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>
As a workaround  I've just modified config.js to setup website url:  as
http instead of https  and yes the site simply start running right BUT...
this configuration  causes some bug in Ghost website, specially with features related to include/create website URLs because they are referred as the url figures in config.js file, due that the URLs have http instead of https and other unexpected behaviors.
Actually I needed to change/tweak Ghost  source code forcing it to always create links as https. -->obviously this is a temporal solution<--
I think this is an azure or iisnode related bug.
Maybe I have wrong configuration or I need to do something more.?
Juan Carlos Ruiz
Blog: http://juank.io
Twitter: @JuanKRuiz
Facebook: JuanKDev

Answer 1

Ok, 
after further investigation I have resolved this issue.
This looks like a Ghost error, but while Ghost team review this case I got this:
Modify core/server/middleware/index.js aprox line 167 you should change this 
var forceSSL = url.parse(config.url).protocol === 'https:' ? true : false,
forceAdminSSL = (isAdmin && config.forceAdminSSL);
for this
var forceSSL = url.parse(config.url).protocol === 'https:' ? false : true,
forceAdminSSL = (isAdmin && config.forceAdminSSL);
Because this looks like Ghost is pretending redirect URLs even if the url is already with
https protocol.
Once you have changed this Ghost Blog on azure works OK as expected.
This resolves blank pages and ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS running Ghost on Azure.
Full detailed explanation in my blog post:
Cómo configurar Ghost para correr sobre https en Azure (nodejs)
English versión here (auto-translated): 
How to configure https Ghost to run on Azure (nodejs)
Juan Carlos Ruiz
Blog: https://juank.io
Twitter: @JuanKRuiz
Facebook: JuanKDev