UserPassword authn fails with IdP behind reverse proxy

Cantor, Scott cantor.2 at osu.edu
Tue Jul 29 21:49:21 EDT 2014


On 7/29/14, 9:43 PM, "Gregory Cook" <gregorc26 at mail.com> wrote:

>Right, we're using Apache httpd due to policy on what can be deployed in
>our various network zones.  (There's also a move here toward using
>mod_security.)  And we're required to use HTTPS from the httpd host in
>one zone to the Tomcat host in a different zone.

Sounds like you're afflicted with the same geniuses we are. Do they teach
this nonsense in some class?

>For the record, if someone else needs to use a similar configuration, we
>did resolve the issue.  We reinstalled the IdP and when install.sh
>prompted for the host name, we specified the host name of the reverse
>proxy (not the name of the app server host where we were actually doing
>the installation).  Thanks for the hint, Scott.

Hmm. I can't think of what the hostname parameter would end up changing.
Or is this a Windows install using the quick installer?

-- Scott



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