Running SonarQube behind a proxy

I am a longtime user of the SonarQube quality management platform and was very pleased when SonarQube 5.6 LTS was released. I expected that the upgrade from the 4.5.7 LTS version would be as trouble-free as updates in the past. Unfortunately I noticed that the native https support was dropped. Thus the https support now has to be provided by a proxy as described in the "Securing the Server Behind a Proxy" documentation part.