Private Server With SSL Redirect

[rdoptis]

With the native SSL option enabled in the Alteryx server settings, users have to explicity specify HTTPS://url.com. Any users who attempt to visit the gallery by navigating to http://url.com or more commonly just url.com see a 404 as Alteryx's built in webserver doesn't appear to perform any redirection when SSL is enabled. 

Without setting up an upstream load-balancer or other webserver, does anyone have a good solution for redirecting users to the https url when they navigate to a private gallery with SSL enabled?

Best regards,

Ryan

[KevinP · Accepted solution]

@rdoptis

Thank you for working with me regarding this issue. As per our email discussion there isn’t a way to do the redirect internally without additional Gallery servers. However, you should be able to use IIS on the same server as your Gallery to do redirection to https. I did some testing and was able to set this up pretty easily with IIS 7.5. You can follow the steps below to set this up:

• Install IIS. Exact steps vary depending on the version of Windows Server, but you should be able to follow the directions at one of the following links
  • 2008 & 2008 R2 - http://www.iis.net/learn/install/installing-iis-7/installing-iis-7-and-above-on-windows-server-2008-...
  • 2012 - http://www.iis.net/learn/get-started/whats-new-in-iis-8/installing-iis-8-on-windows-server-2012
  • 2012 R2 - http://www.iis.net/learn/install/installing-iis-85/installing-iis-85-on-windows-server-2012-r2
• Open IIS Manager
  • Click Start
  • Open Control Panel
  • Open Administrative Tools
  • Double click Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager
• In IIS Manager find and click on default site
• Double click on HTTP Redirect
• On the HTTP Redirect configuration screen click the check box for ‘Redirect requests to this destination:'
• In the text box enter the root https address for the gallery server (e.g. https://hostname.domain.tld) without the /gallery path at the end. This address should match the hostname/FQDN your certificate was issued for.
• Apply the changes and test

[rdoptis]

Thank you for this solution, @KevinP! It fills the need without having to stand up additional hardware / VMs to get the SSL redirect. 

Best regards,

Ryan

[jason_scarlett]

I wish this was an option from within the Alteryx Server System Setting (and by default turned on).