[Freeipa-users] Web UI access from outside the home network via port forwarding

[Jan Pazdziora]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 07:00:04PM -0700, Harry Kashouli wrote:
> 
> I have a freeipa server set up, and would like to access the Web UI
> remotely (from outside my home network).
> 
> I set up a fresh Fedora 24 server install, and installed freeipa-server.
>  - I own a domain, domain.com
>  - The hostname of my freeipa server is hostname.subdomain.domain.com
>  - My home network domain is subdomain.domain.com
> 
> I set up a CNAME hostname.domain.com and port forwardings, and I tested
> this works with nginx on the same machine; I can successfully see the nginx
> test page.
> I then assumed I could do the same with the freeipa Web UI, but when I
> navigate to http://hostname.domain.com:<external_port>, it switches to
> https://hostname.subdomain.domain.com:<internal_port>, and with the
> following error: "Server not found"
> 
> What am I doing wrong?

There are some more config tweaks likely needed.

Writeup

	https://www.adelton.com/freeipa/freeipa-behind-proxy-with-different-name

should help you resolve the issue.

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Jan Pazdziora
Senior Principal Software Engineer, Identity Management Engineering, Red Hat