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If you are using a Load Balancer that offloads HTTPS, FlexDeploy will see the incoming connections from the load balancer as HTTP. This will cause it to generate relative paths with http:// instead of https://. Those URLS are redirected by the load balancer, starting a infinite loop. There is a great article about it here: https://community.pivotal.io/s/article/Purpose-of-the-X-Forwarded-Proto-HTTP-Header?language=en_US

To avoid that loop,

1 Have the load balancer set X-Forwarded-Proto to https and use a Valve to determine when to set HTTP/HTTPS.

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Option 1 - using RemoteIpValve and x-forwarded-proto

This way will allow users to access FlexDeploy with or without the loadbalancer.

1 In your server.xml in the host section where you will see other valves add an additional valve:

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  • Modify the ip addresses shown here to your Load Blanacer IP addresses.

  • Keep the format of the ip addresses like this in regex format \. instead of ., and use | for OR.

3 2 in your load balancer configuration, set the X-Forwarded-Proto header.

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The example titled “Sample with internal proxies” is likely the one closest to the needs of most customers with load balancers.

3 Restart FlexDeploy

Option 2 - Using Connector settings

This way will redirect users to the loadbalancer.

1 In your server.xml in the http connector (that is not commented out) add this line:

proxyport="443" scheme="https" secure="true" proxyname="example.com

2 Change “example.com” to the hostname of the loadbalancer.

3 Restart Flexdeploy