phpMyAdmin - The plain HTTP request was sent to HTTPS port
So I tried getting phpMyAdmin to work with https again, turns out there was a solution posted back in 2008 on this blog. His solution didn't quite work out for me, so I thought I'd update it with my working solution. His version states add fastcgi_param HTTPS on which is correct, just at the wrong place. location ~ \.php$ { fastcgi_param HTTPS on; fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:xxxx; fastcgi_index index.php; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /var/www$fastcgi_script_name; include /usr/local/nginx/conf/fastcgi_params; } What I need to do is the following: location ~ \.php$ { fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:xxxx; fastcgi_index index.php; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /var/www$fastcgi_script_name; include /usr/local/nginx/conf/fastcgi_params; fastcgi_param HTTPS on; } Why? Simply cause in the conf/fastcgi_params file I had this: fastcgi_param HTTPS $ssl_protocol; Which doesn't seem to be good enough for good ol' phpMyAdmin, so we need to overwrite it after we inclu