Hi Jon, everyone,

I'm trying to figure out how to make the SolPartMenu work with my reverse proxy configuration.  Currently, my site is hosted on an internal machine inside my company network.  I've got the domain sitting with a hosting company that reverse proxies to the address of the internal machine.  The external URL is www.capch.ca.  The internal URL is www.nexjsystems.com:8089.

My question is, for all the relative links on the site, the reverse proxy works (ie if there's a relative link /contact_us.aspx, the HTML code will say /contact_us.aspx, which allows the reverse proxy to work and have it say www.capch.ca/contact_us.aspx).  But SolPartMenu grabs the absolute URL, which spits out www.nexjsystems.com:8089/contact_us.aspx - and this is wrong.

How do I get SolPartMenu spitting out relative links so that the reverse proxy will work and complete the URL as www.capch.ca/relative_link?

Thanks!
Nelson

Hi Nelson,

I've just worked out how to do this myself.

I did it as a sub-site to my main site (http://www.intuitiveit.com.au/subsite) but I'm sure it will work for top level sites too.

Due to the way that DNN handles host headers (so you can have multiple portals under one instance) and the way solpart menu generates its URLs, there are some gotchas that need to be addressed.

1. On the apache box, in the httpd.conf the proxypass and proxypassreverse must point to the same value as the servername. This is to ensure the solpart menu reflects the correct url. See the example here

<VirtualHost>
ServerName www.intuitiveit.com.au

ProxyPass / http://www.intuitiveit.com.au/
ProxyPassReverse / http://www.intuitiveit.com.au/
</VirtualHost>

2. On the apache box, enter a line in the hosts file to point to the backend IIS server:
192.168.0.1 www.intuitiveit.com.au

3. On the IIS server, make sure the directoryname that contains the DNN code IS NOT the same as the URL you are using.

The right way:
Directory name c:\inetpub\wwwroot\intutiveit\dnn
Portal alias subsite

The wrong way:
Directory name c:\inetpub\wwwroot\intuitiveit\subsite
Portal alias subsite.  You will get an infinite redirect loop if they are the same

4. Create a virtual directory under the Site Root called subsite and point it to c:\inetpub\wwwroot\intutiveit\dnn

5. Create your new portal in DNN Host settings and make it www.intuitiveit.com.au/subsite

That's it.  Good luck