Wordpress on HTTPS and Apache Alias - php

Question

I am trying to setup our blog, but cannot crack the right configuration...
The folder structure is:
var/www/domain
| - website
| - webapp
| - blog
Apache Config:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName example.com
ServerAlias www.example.com
ServerAdmin admin#example.com
# -------------------------------------
# ------ Web Stuff ------
# -------------------------------------
# Website
DocumentRoot /var/www/example.com/production/website/code/wwwroot
<Directory "/var/www/example.com/production/website/code/wwwroot">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride all
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
# Webapp
Alias /pages /var/www/example.com/production/webapp
<Directory "/var/www/example.com/production/webapp">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride all
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
# Blog
Alias /blog /var/www/example.com/production/blog
<Directory "/var/www/example.com/production/blog">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride all
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/domain_production_access.log combined
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/domain_production_error.log
LogLevel warn
# -------------------------------------
# -------------------------------------
# Catch any requests for example.com and redirect them to www.example.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com
RewriteRule (.*) https://www.example.com/$1 [NC,R=301,L]
# Catch any http requests (except for status check and those that originated from
# this server) and redirect them to https
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !=localhost
RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} !https
RewriteRule !/api/aws/check https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [NC,R=301,L]
# Django web service - all URLs beginning with /api
WSGIDaemonProcess www.example.com processes=8 threads=1 display-name=%{GROUP}
... FOLLOWED BY A LOT OF SETTINGS FOR API ...
<LocationMatch "\.(jpg|css|gif|pdf|ico)$">
SetHandler None
</LocationMatch>
# Zip output
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css text/html application/x-javascript application/javascript application/json
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
I have installed WordPress in blog directory and connected to database. But when I try to open https://www.example.com/blog I see the content but no styling (all assets coming from non-https address).
I couldn't access wp-admin, so I manually changed the urls in database to https, still cannot see any assets on blog page, and when trying to access wp-admin I get redirection loop.

Answer 1

Installing https plugin solved it. there were 2 separate problems:
1) infinite loop
2) assets being served from http
The plugin solved both, the first problem solved by adding .htaccess to the root (which I tried milion times, but apparently I must have made some mistake in the rewrite rules).
But that doesn't solve the issue with assets (I know, I tried/tested). That means this pugin has to do some magic in php as well, which by my logic is a pretty big issue in the wordpress itself...
Just as a reference, this is how the .htaccess looks like:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /blog/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /blog/index.php [L]
</IfModule>