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Offline bigbunk390

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Netscaler as reverse proxy
« on: November 10, 2011, 11:18:12 AM »
I am trying to configure my netscaler as a reverse proxy but am not doing a good job of it.

I have the netscaler configured to point to our landing page which has links to other web sites within the organization.
The user  enters https://netscaler.domainsuffix and can get to the landing page but when they click on a link from the page it changes the url to http://app.domainsuffix.

We have juniper boxes that also hit the landing page and when a user clicks on the link it doesn't change the url and takes you to the clicked link.

Can anyone provide some suggestions?

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Re: Netscaler as reverse proxy
« Reply #1 on: November 10, 2011, 02:04:55 PM »
Additionally, it would be nice if it could be done without having to use access gateway. I know CS is an option but then I would have to created multiple rules/policies for each app/site.


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Re: Netscaler as reverse proxy
« Reply #2 on: November 14, 2011, 03:00:17 PM »
I am trying to configure my netscaler as a reverse proxy but am not doing a good job of it.

I have the netscaler configured to point to our landing page which has links to other web sites within the organization.
The user  enters https://netscaler.domainsuffix and can get to the landing page but when they click on a link from the page it changes the url to http://app.domainsuffix.

We have juniper boxes that also hit the landing page and when a user clicks on the link it doesn't change the url and takes you to the clicked link.

Can anyone provide some suggestions?

First the landing page. You need to check the page source to verify that the link src does not have the form http://app.domain... it should be relative instead, something like src=/path/to/link.html if this is the case you would need to rewrite the body of the responses. Take a look at similar problems presented here on the forums, if you can solve it then open a new thread.

Now the reverse proxy, could you please expand a little on your network topology, what configurations have you tried?

Daniel