Run Confluence behind BigIP F5

felix reyner

Hello I would like to ask how to configure confluence so ti could run behind F5 (VS F5 will act as HTTPS/SSL).

I have tried to configure as follow : ( I got error because tomcat could not use port 80)

<Connector className="org.apache.coyote.tomcat4.CoyoteConnector" port="80" minProcessors="5"

                   maxProcessors="75" proxyPort="443" scheme="https" secure="true" clientAuth="false" sslProtocol="TLS" SSEnabled="true"

                   enableLookups="false" redirectPort="8443" acceptCount="10" debug="0" connectionTimeout="20000"

                   useURIValidationHack="false" URIEncoding="UTF-8" />

Then I have tried this configuration too : (I could not access confluence in https mode)

<Connector className="org.apache.coyote.tomcat4.CoyoteConnector" port="8080" minProcessors="5"

                   maxProcessors="75" proxyPort="443" scheme="https" secure="true" clientAuth="false" sslProtocol="TLS" SSEnabled="true"

                   enableLookups="false" redirectPort="8443" acceptCount="10" debug="0" connectionTimeout="20000"

                   useURIValidationHack="false" URIEncoding="UTF-8" />

Could you give me guidance for my problem? thank you...

Tiago Comasseto

Hi Felix, the configuration in Confluence for F5 is basically the same as for Apache. You can configure your server.xml as in the example of this doc. Then your connector would look like this:

<Connector port="8090" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192"
           maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25" maxSpareThreads="75"
           enableLookups="false" redirectPort="8443" acceptCount="100"
           connectionTimeout="20000" disableUploadTimeout="true"
           proxyName="www.example.com" proxyPort="80" />

I hope it helps.

Cheers