Symptoms

When accessing the dashboard on a JIRA instance displaying an activity stream, the browser may display a warning similar to:

• This page has insecure content
• Mixed content warning
• Only secure content is displayed

Cause

The activity stream displays content using the Base URL configured in the JIRA instance.  This may cause the browser to flag the page as insecure due to the mixed SSL and non-SSL content.  A user can see the mixed URL content when using the developer tools to inspect a page.

Resolution

• Update the Base URL configuration to use the https url.  This setting is is found in Administration >> System >> General Configuration >> Base URL.

• For user who are integrated JIRA with Proxy SSL such as Nginx or Apache, please add this variables (proxyName, proxyPort, scheme and secure) in your JIRA server.xml like below:

  <!-- OPTIONAL Proxy Connector with https -->
  <Connector port="8080" maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25" connectionTimeout="20000" enableLookups="false" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192" protocol="HTTP/1.1" useBodyEncodingForURI="true" redirectPort="8443" acceptCount="100" disableUploadTimeout="true"
  proxyName="www.atlassian.com" proxyPort="443" scheme="https" secure="true"/>