Infinite looping of SP in load balanced production instance

[Cantor, Scott]

On 10/31/13, 10:55 AM, "Brian Reindel" <brian at reindel.com> wrote:
>
>I've seen this mentioned before, and I definitely need a better grasp
>of how to configure Apache for offloading. When you say to include
>"https://" for the ServerName directive, are you talking about in the
>non-secure configuration file?

Yes. A web server must always be configured to reflect the virtual host
parameters that the client sees, not what it's actually doing physically.
That's how the virtualization works.

> So if our load balancer is forwarding
>everything to http then that non-secure virtualhost would have
>https:// in front of the host in the ServerName? If you have any good
>articles on Apache that discuss these configuration changes as it
>relates to SSL offloading then please pass them along.

I do not have anything other than the Apache documentation. I don't run
stuff this way, so it isn't my area of expertise.

-- Scott