topic Re: Proxy SPP with Apache and SSL in Alfresco Archive

Proxy SPP with Apache and SSL

iamchris — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:34:18 GMT

Trying to make the SPP portion of Alfresco work over https by using Apache 2 as a reverse proxy.Windows 7, Word 2007 on the workstation…I can get Word to create the workspace, but it fails when it tries to upload the document. If I run bare http://docs.foo.com:7070 it seems to work fine, so there is

Re: Proxy SPP with Apache and SSL

iamchris — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:53:21 GMT

…nudge…

Re: Proxy SPP with Apache and SSL

iamchris — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:11:59 GMT

More data here…

Apparently Office is trying to upload the documents to http://spp.foo.com/..../document.docx not HTTPS. The 302 redirect is probably a bad idea if Office is going to post to that URL, so I removed it.

If I proxy over http, I can manage the document workspace without a problem.

Where is Office picking up "http" from??

Here are the relevant parts of alfresco-global.properties

-=-

alfresco.context=alfresco
alfresco.host=docs.foo.com
alfresco.port=443
alfresco.protocol=https

share.context=share
share.host=docs.foo.com
share.port=443
share.protocol=https

### SPP Server ###
vti.server.external.host=https://docs.foo.com
vti.server.external.port=443
vti.server.port=7070
vti.alfresco.deployment.context=/alfresco
vti.alfresco.alfresoHostWithPort=https://docs.foo.com:443
vti.share.shareHostWithPort=https://docs.foo.com:443

-=-

Re: Proxy SPP with Apache and SSL

loftux — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:54:36 GMT

This is what I have

<VirtualHost *:80>

        ServerName office.example.com

        <Proxy *>
                Order Deny,Allow
                Deny from all
                Allow from all
        </Proxy>
        ProxyRequests off
        ProxyVia On
        ProxyPreserveHost On
        ProxyPass /doc http://localhost:7070/doc
        ProxyPassReverse /alfresco http://localhost:7070/alfresco
        ProxyPass / http://localhost:7070/
        ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:7070/

</VirtualHost>‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

I do not remember :? why there is a /doc one in there, if it was needed or if it was that I experimented giving the ssp an alternate subfolder.

Re: Proxy SPP with Apache and SSL

iamchris — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:32:04 GMT

Thanks for the reply.

That config works, but it isn't SSL.

I believe I've narrowed down the issue to Office, even though the document workspace gets set up https://spp.example.com, wants to upload and access the documents at http://spp.example.com. I'm not sure if Alfresco is somehow reporting http to Office or if the problem lies inside Office itself.

Why does Office desire http even though the initial workspace setup is over https?

Re: Proxy SPP with Apache and SSL

franzpolik — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:50:30 GMT

Hi,

are you sure that you didn't simply mistype a word?

Your post includes:

### SPP Server ###
vti.server.external.host=https://docs.foo.com
vti.server.external.port=443
vti.server.port=7070
vti.alfresco.deployment.context=/alfresco
vti.alfresco.alfresoHostWithPort=https://docs.foo.com:443
vti.share.shareHostWithPort=https://docs.foo.com:443

Best wishes,
Francesco