Confluence on IIS results in redirect loop

Question

I've followed the instructions found in the documentation and connected Confluence to an IIS7 website (on windows server 2012). The Confluence installtion at /confluence works properly, but the requests to the site on other paths (i.e. /*) result in a redirect loop and the page doesn't load. The server.xml file looks like this: Am I missing something?

Former user · Answer

I've made no progress since.

I read somewhere that it's possible to do this with server farms - is it true? Should I try this approach?

Former user · Answer

I tried that, so that the pattern is .* in the IIS redirect rule, and the server.xml proxy name is set to mydomain/confluence

But now I'm getting server error 404 on the site root, and the confluence path points to mydomain/confluence/confluence/*

So the confluence installation works in this configuration, but not the rest of the site.

Oh, and by the way, I had to change the redirect path's arguments from {R:1} to {R:0}, otherwise I'm getting error 500.50 for invalid rewrite parameter. IIS also warns that 1 is not a legal reference.

Tiago Comasseto · Answer

Hi Asaf, you can use the pattern exactly as in the KB, you can use (.*) in IIS and set the contect path (/confluence) in your server.xml

Cheers