Using reverse proxy and terminating ssl on them

Question

Hello
I am trying to set up IAS 9.03 on 2 machines one holding the infrastructure and one holding the midtier.
We want to terminate the ssl traffic on reverse proxys on apache. I am not very good at this so i am looking for a solution i read that you can do this in the whitepapers on the subject IAS.
Much thanks for any answer.
Boris

Answer 1

1) So initially we had the following:
<Object name="reverse-proxy-/">
Route fn="set-origin-server" server="http://server-backend"
</Object>
... and when getting a 401 from the back-end server it would seem that entering credentials in the dialog prompt does not work as is OOB; had it worked we would not have attempted anything further and hence this post would not exist... if we directly access the back-end server our credentials work so that is not the issue.
2) I agree that the "set-basic-auth" directive should be removed - as it is clearly to supply a user id and password - what was provided was a far fetched attempt to get this to work and will clearly remove it as well as the "forward-proxy-agent" and "forward-proxy-auth"
When you configure Web Server 7.0 as a reverse proxy, basic auth should work out of the box. If it doesn't, I recommend looking at the HTTP messages to figure out what's gone wrong. If you don't know how to do that and you have a support contract, Sun support should be able to help you.That is interesting - is this OOB feature documented anywhere?
I'll turn up the log level on the RP and see what happens - if I turn it high enough should I be able to see the request headers being forwarded; I'll also try to look at the backend server logs. Is there anything else you suggest - i.e. should be trying to snoop the traffic....