Anyone have a working Confluence Server Instance Over Cisco Clientless WebVPN?

[Jeff Little]

I am trying to get a Confluence Server working that is accessible over Cisco Client less WebVPN. I'm trying to get a basic setup working first but I'm getting stuck. Everything is working if accessed without the vpn.

I am testing on version 6.6.12 and 6.13.5 LTS.

Over the Webvpn depending on the tomcat context settings either the "Create" page will not work or the "Edit" page feature will not work. The error I get in the UI is "Can't connect to the server Looks like your session expired. Log in again to keep working."

I did notice that if I reload the edit page (pressing F5) it will load back into the editor and I can save the page. 

Example Connector ports

This example creation works but editing does not.

<Connector port="9090" connectionTimeout="20000" redirectPort="8443"
maxThreads="48" minSpareThreads="10"
enableLookups="false" acceptCount="10" debug="0" URIEncoding="UTF-8"
protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol" />

This example creation does not work but editing does.

<Connector port="9094" connectionTimeout="20000" redirectPort="8443"
maxThreads="48" minSpareThreads="10"
enableLookups="false" acceptCount="10" debug="0" URIEncoding="UTF-8"
protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol" proxyName="server.domain.tld" proxyPort="80" scheme="http"/>

This issue is similar to this post

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Questions/Connected-through-Cisco-SSL-VPN-to-our-internal-Confluence-Wiki/qaq-p/358468

Thanks!

[Jeff Little]

I found a "workaround", can anyone help explain if there is a better way?

If I disable the Quick Edit Utilities module under Confluence Quick Edit Plugin, editing now works using the standard tomcat https proxy settings with nginx.