Configuring Bitbucket Server behind an F5

Question

I am trying to set up my local Bitbucket server behind an F5 to offload SSL on the F5.

My network team has configured the front end of the F5 to accept Https:// as the connection and then on the back end routes the connection to servername.domainname.com:7990

When I enter the new secure url ofor the front end of the F5 I am able to log in.  I have changed the Base URL, and also made a change to the bitbucket.properties file according to instructions, but still am having issues.

Once the bitbucket.properties file gets modified, then the server will not start up properly, it seems to hang on the starting plugin framework, and then eventually nothing works.

Has anyone successfully configured bitbucket to run behind an F5?

Thanks

Wayne Harvey · Answer

Hi Christian,

I am running Bitbucket version 5.13.0

The change to the Bitbucket.Properties file was the following:

server.secure=true

server.scheme=https

server.proxy-port=443

server.proxy-name=gitserver.mycompany.com

I put my own server and domain information in the server.proxy-name entry (didn't leave it exactly the same as above.)

Also the F5 was configured to route the proxy name to the actual server name over port 7990

Christian Glockner · Answer

Hi Wayne,

Which version of Bitbucket Server are you using?

You mention making changes to bitbucket.properties - what did you change?

Cheers,

Christian

Premier Support Engineer

Atlassian