Before going even deeper into the weeds on this has anybody got a reverse proxy setup that works with public links?
What I have setup seems to be failing on an outbound rule. There's more below about that.
FileVista version 8.3.7.0
We have been running FV for several years and have decided to move the web application behind a reverse proxy and I am testing that out with a temporary domain name and TLS certficate.
I setup the proxy on IIS version 10. I can login, navigate, upload and download from the web interface OK.
I modified the base URL to match the domain name I am testing with and when I create a public link it looks OK but when I try to use it to download the file I get the 404 message.
We are using application based logins only. So pretty simple.
Here is the inbound rule in the web.config file that forwards the request to FileVista. This works fine for interacting with web pages. Upload files and so on work as expected.
<rule name="InboundForWebfileserver02" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="(.*)"/>
<conditions>
<add input="{SERVER_NAME}" pattern="^files" />
</conditions>
<action type="Rewrite" url="http://webfileserver02:6060/{R:0}" />
<serverVariables>
<set name="HTTP_X_ORIGINAL_ACCEPT_ENCODING" value="{HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING}" />
<set name="HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING" value="" />
</serverVariables>
</rule>However, whenever I test the public url - which looks fine - the 404 error occurs. When I looked at the Failed Request Trace log the process gives up in the precondition of an outbound rule and there is no record of the inbound rule even executing.
Here's the outbound web.config section.
<rule name="OutboundFromWebfileserver02" preCondition="ResponseIsHtml1">
<match filterByTags="A, Form, Img"
pattern="^http(s)?://webfileserver02:6060/(.*)" />
<conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="true" />
<action type="Rewrite" value="http{R:1}://files.testdomainname.com/{R:2}" />
</rule>
<rule name="OutboundRestoreAcceptEncoding"
preCondition="NeedsRestoringAcceptEncoding">
<match serverVariable="HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING" pattern="‘^(.*)’" />
<conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="true" />
<action type="Rewrite" value="{HTTP_X_ORIGINAL_ACCEPT_ENCODING}" />
</rule>
<preConditions>
<preCondition name="ResponseIsHtml1">
<add input="{RESPONSE_CONTENT_TYPE}" pattern="^text/html" />
</preCondition>
<preCondition name="NeedsRestoringAcceptEncoding">
<add input="{HTTP_X_ORIGINAL_ACCEPT_ENCODING}" pattern=".+" />
</preCondition>
</preConditions>