Is it possible for Jira to be hosted behind a Netscaler VPX with SSL terminated at the VPX?

[Jon Jon]

I'm trying to set this up, but Jira's documentation and customer support is not helping. I have an instance of Jira 4.4 that is working fine behind the VPX over http. When I try to access it via https with the SSL terminated at the Netscaler VPX that's in front of it, I can get through, but as soon as I start browsing it redirects me back to http. I've looked over the documentation to get this to work behind an apache proxy, but most of the documentation doesn't apply since most of the configuration is in apache and that part is already done on the Netscaler.

[Andrew Frayling]

Hi,

Have you tried the following in server.xml :

<Connector port="8080"

                   maxThreads="150"
                   minSpareThreads="25"
                   maxSpareThreads="75"
                   connectionTimeout="20000"

                   enableLookups="false"
                   maxHttpHeaderSize="8192"
                   protocol="HTTP/1.1"
                   useBodyEncodingForURI="true"
                   redirectPort="8443"
                   acceptCount="100"
                   disableUploadTimeout="true"
                   SSLEnabled="false" 
                   scheme="https"
                   secure="true"
                   proxyPort="443"
                   proxyHost="my.website.com" />

where my.website.com is the hostname for your JIRA install?

The SSLEnabled, scheme, secure, proxyPort and proxyHost settings should tell Tomcat to leave the browser on https, but SSL will still be terminated at your Netscaler.

Hope this helps.

Andrew.

[Deleted user]

I've been struggling with a combination of Jira behind Nginx and https through our Netscaler. The above helped me out. Thx :-)