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Tariq Mehmood
Tariq Mehmood

Reputation: 269

IBM IHS Reverse Proxy Configuration

I am trying to setup a reverse proxy using IBM HTTP server and what I want to do is that user will hit a HTTP url to my reverse proxy server that will forward request internally to HTTPs server.

HTTP Address <--> Reverse Proxy (IBM HTTP Server) <--> HTTPS server (https://example.com)

In my configuration I have enabled mod_proxy & mod_proxy_http and configured below ProxyPass

Proxypass / https://example.com

But I am unable to configure it. I am getting error:

proxy: HTTPS: failed to enable SSL support for example.com

Anybody help what I might be doing wrong. I have also already loaded below modules:

LoadModule ibm_ssl_module modules/mod_ibm_ssl.so

Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3169

Answers (1)

covener
covener

Reputation: 17872

You need to specify a KeyFile and SSLProxyEngine ON.

Caveat:

However, generally IBM HTTP Server uses the WebSphere WebServer Plug-in as a websphere-specific HTTP reverse proxy plugin that doesn't share any of this configuration.

Most people use IBM HTTP Server because it's supported by IBM, but it's only supported by IBM when you use it in a way prescribed by a product that bundled it. That's rarely w/ mod_proxy.

Upvotes: 1

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