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How to configure IIS to proxy Splunk Javascript JDK requests from outside Splunk Web?

pedromvieira
Communicator

How can I configure IIS to work as a Proxy for connecting to Splunk Web from outside?

http://dev.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAEW6

PS: I´m trying login_form and login_verify examples.

http://dev.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAEWS

My IIS: 127.0.0.1:8080
My Splunk: 127.0.0.1:8089 (In a Virtual Machine with port redirect)

My Chrome console when I submit in login_form.

 POST http://127.0.0.1:8080/proxy/services/auth/login?output_mode=json 404 (Not Found)
login_form.html:84 Login failed:  Object {response: Object, status: 404, data: "<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Stric…↵ </fieldset> ↵</div> ↵</div> ↵</body> ↵</html> ↵", error: "Not Found"}

My web.config

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
    <system.webServer>
        <rewrite>
            <outboundRules>
                <rule name="SplunkOut" preCondition="" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match filterByTags="A, Area, Base, Form, Frame, Head, IFrame, Img, Input, Link, Script" pattern="(.*)://(.*):(.*)/proxy/(.*)" />
                    <action type="Rewrite" value="{R:1}://{R:2}:8080/proxy/{R:4}" />
                </rule>
                <preConditions>
                    <preCondition name="ResponseIsHTML">
                        <add input="{RESPONSE_CONTENT_TYPE}" pattern="^text/html" />
                    </preCondition>
                    <preCondition name="ResponseIsJSON">
                        <add input="{RESPONSE_CONTENT_TYPE}" pattern="^application/json" />
                    </preCondition>
                </preConditions>
            </outboundRules>
            <rules>
                <rule name="SplunkIn" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="(.*)://(.*):(.*)/proxy/(.*)" />
                    <conditions>
                        <add input="{QUERY_STRING}" pattern="^(https?)://" />
                    </conditions>
                    <serverVariables>
                        <set name="HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING" value="" />
                    </serverVariables>
                    <action type="Rewrite" url="{R:1}://{R:2}:8089/proxy/{R:4}" logRewrittenUrl="true" />
                </rule>
            </rules>
        </rewrite>
    </system.webServer>
</configuration>
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AshChakor
Path Finder

I have the same issue, did you find out the answer for how to configure IIS to work as a Proxy for connecting to Splunk Web from outside? Can you please share the settings on IIS server

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sloshburch
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

@AshChakor - what about the answer provided below? Did that work?

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sloshburch
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee
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