F5 SSL Offload and Sharepoint AAM's.
Hi, I have been working on a F5 APM application for some time now. I used the latest Sharepoint iAPP to create a connection to my inside sharepoint servers. I am using SSL offloading by the F5 and most things seem to be working. However, my SP Admin had to modify the sharepoint AAM's in order to get everything working correctly. Below is what he had to do:
- Internal URL --------------------------Zone ----------Public URL for Zone
- https://app.ourcompany.com ----Default ---------https://app.ourcompany.com
- http://app.ourcompany.com ------Default --------https://app.ourcompany.com
While this seemed to fix the SP app coming through the F5, the inside users can no longer access the site using the same name. Keep in mind that there is no cert on the server itself. This seemed to be the recommended way of setting up the AAM's from the F5 deployment guides and seems to be only way to get the SP app working correctly.
Something else we tried was to set the AAM's like the following:
- Internal URL ----------------------------Zone ----------Public URL for Zone
- https://app.ourcompany.com -------Default -------https://app.ourcompany.com
- http://app.ourcompany.com ---------intranet ------http://app.ourcompany.com
While this did fix the inside access, issues (drop down menus not working and such) returned to users coming in through the F5.
As best we can tell, since the F5 is doing the SSL offload, all access to the internal server from the F5 is done over HTTP and the AAM settings seem to affect this traffic. This appears to be some sort of SP thing..
Anyone doing SSL offload on the F5 for Sharepoint access and using the same URL internal and external? If so, how did you resolve this particular issue? Did you use an irule? different URL for inside users? ???
Thanks in advance for any help on this issue, Thanks, Danny