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icon5.gif   Too many redirects when running behind load balancer?, posted by Tamas Gal on Tue Jul 19 11:01:00 2022 
    icon2.gif   Re: Too many redirects when running behind load balancer?, posted by Stefan Ritt on Tue Jul 19 11:13:09 2022 
       icon2.gif   Re: Too many redirects when running behind load balancer?, posted by Tamas Gal on Tue Jul 19 11:17:44 2022 
          icon2.gif   Re: Too many redirects when running behind load balancer?, posted by Tamas Gal on Tue Jul 19 11:24:36 2022 
             icon2.gif   Re: Too many redirects when running behind load balancer?, posted by Stefan Ritt on Tue Jul 19 11:40:59 2022 
                icon2.gif   Re: Too many redirects when running behind load balancer?, posted by Tamas Gal on Tue Jul 19 12:36:04 2022 
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                      icon2.gif   Re: Too many redirects when running behind load balancer?, posted by Stefan Ritt on Tue Jul 19 12:48:42 2022 
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                            icon5.gif   Re: Too many redirects when running behind load balancer?, posted by Tamas Gal on Fri Jan 20 14:11:52 2023 
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Message ID: 69622     Entry time: Fri Jan 20 14:08:25 2023     In reply to: 69550
Icon: Question  Author: Tamas Gal  Author Email: he i 
Category: Question  OS: Linux  ELOG Version: 3.1.3 
Subject: Re: Too many redirects when running behind load balancer? 

The issue is still present and now it's quite urgent to move this last service into the Swarm. Does anyone maybe have an idea what's wrong? To sum up: if there is a non-empty password file, the login page chokes in an infinite loop of redirects. I am using the same HAProxy load balancer configuration as for all the other services (running Apache, NGINX, GitLab, XWiki, etc.):

backend be_elog.km3net.de
    mode http

    option forwardfor except 127.0.0.1
    http-request add-header X-Forwarded-Proto https if { ssl_fc }

    server-template km3net-elog- 1 km3net-elog_elog:8080 check resolvers docker init-addr libc,none

Tamas Gal wrote:

Yes, I used the empty `passwd` file from example. When I then click on one of the logbooks, I get to the page where I can register a user (see attached screenshot). After clickin on "Save" for the user registration, I again get the redirect error. Once there is a registered user (i.e. a non-empty password file) the redirect issue is persistent. Any idea where the problem might be? I just emptied the password file again, so you can have a one-shot, if you like.

Btw. I have SSL termination in the load balancer, so ELOG does not need to do any SSL related things (the swarm is in a locally isolated network, so all internal communication between the load balancer and the swarm machines are safe). Maybe that's the issue? On the other hand, the main page loads fine and uses SSL termination too, so I don't know, maybe there is logic behind the authentication which collides with the SSL termination.

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Yes I see the redirects. You say with the example logbook it works, right? Is it the password protection which triggers the problem or anything else? Does it work if you take out the password protection? The key is to identify which setting in your config file triggers the problem, so you can bracket the problem down between the example logbook and your logbook definition.

 

 

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