Thanks for the help today Eric... I'm not sure if this is worth adding to the docs but I thought I'd post it in case someone would like to. I have an apache proxy setup for galaxy with ldap authentication. I wanted the user sign on to be over https as users are using their HPC accounts to sign in. I modified /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf to redirect requests from http to https: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on RewriteRule ^/?(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}/$1 [R,L] I then added the proxy configuration to /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf to the virtual host section: <VirtualHost _default_:443> RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^/static/style/(.*) /panfs/storage.local/opt/galaxy-dist/static/june_2007_style/blue/$1 [L] RewriteRule ^/static/scripts/(.*) /panfs/storage.local/opt/galaxy-dist/static/scripts/packed/$1 [L] RewriteRule ^/static/(.*) /panfs/storage.local/opt/galaxy-dist/static/$1 [L] RewriteRule ^/favicon.ico /panfs/storage.local/opt/galaxy-dist/static/favicon.ico [L] RewriteRule ^/robots.txt /panfs/storage.local/opt/galaxy-dist/static/robots.txt [L] RewriteRule ^(.*) http://144.174.51.187:8080$1 [P]