Confluence on IIS results in redirect loop

[Asaf Sitner]

I've followed the instructions found in the documentation and connected Confluence to an IIS7 website (on windows server 2012).

The Confluence installtion at <mydomain>/confluence works properly, but the requests to the site on other paths (i.e. <mydomain>/*) result in a redirect loop and the page doesn't load.

The server.xml file looks like this:

<Server port="8000" shutdown="SHUTDOWN" debug="0">
    <Service name="Tomcat-Standalone">
        <Connector port="8090" connectionTimeout="20000" redirectPort="8443" maxThreads="200" minSpareThreads="10" enableLookups="false" acceptCount="10" debug="0" URIEncoding="UTF-8" />
        <Connector port="8009" enableLookups="false" redirectPort="8443" protocol="AJP/1.3" URIEncoding="UTF-8" />
         
        <Engine name="Standalone" defaultHost="localhost" debug="0">
          <Host name="localhost" debug="0" appBase="webapps" unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="false">

                <Context path="/confluence" docBase="../confluence" debug="0" reloadable="false">
                    <Manager pathname="" />
                </Context>
            </Host>
        </Engine>
    </Service>
</Server>

Am I missing something?

[Tiago Comasseto]

Hi Asaf, personally I really hate AJP, I lost my temper many times with it... then my live changed when I discovered ARR, you can see how this configuration is set here. It says JIRA there, but the steps are exactly the same for Confluence.

I hope it helps.

Cheers

[Asaf Sitner]

So how exactly do I set this up as a non-subdomain?

The documentation only explains confluence.mydomain.com, but what do I need to do if I want to make it into mydomain.com/confluence?

I've tried setting a rewrite rule that with the pattern /confluence/.* to keep the rest of the site intact, and with the destination of localhost:8090/{R:0} (the default confluence settings).

In the server.xml file I've added the proxy name to mydomain.com and the port to 80.

However, I'm getting a 404 error on any matching request (mydomain.com/confluence/anything). Any ideas where I messed up?

[Tiago Comasseto]

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

[Asaf Sitner]

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.

[Asaf Sitner]

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?