SSL after initial install?

Hi – I’m having a bit of a struggle to get WordPress to run in https.

About my environment. I am installing on a Ubuntu web server that is running apache2. It only runs a plain http listener.

In front of that web server is a Netscaler load balancer. It already has the ssl certificate (and CA files) installed on it. So I want the Netscaler to do ssl offload.

I can’t seem to get WordPress to go along with this idea. Is there a plugin to support SSL that would work in a situation like this? I’ve tried Really Simple SSL and it looked like it was trying to find the cert on my web server. It won’t live there, in my case it’s on a load balancer. Really Simple SSL turned my fresh install into a broken 301 loop once I tried to access wp-admin as well.

What would be the best way to proceed with such an install? It seems no matter what I do, when I tell WordPress its Site and WordPress URLs are https, I’m in a 301 loop that is impossible to get out of.

Thanks!