Confluence SharePoint Connector 1.2 : NTLM and Anonymous Access
This page last changed on May 23, 2010 by smaddox.
NTLM and Anonymous Access Not SupportedThere is currently no supported solution that allows anonymous access to Confluence while using NTLM as the authentication method for Confluence. Unsupported Solutions Will Cause ProblemsSome brave souls have suggested the following two solutions, when using Confluence with IIS. Both suggestions are unsupported and both offer problems:
(Not Supported) Using Two Ports and Two Base URLs
With this approach, you would send all anonymous users to the Tomcat port (for example, 8080) and send all NTLM users to the IIS port. If someone uses the anonymous port and tries to access content that is not available to anonymous users, they will be presented with the Confluence login page. At that point they can enter their Active Directory credentials, and are then using Active Directory integration instead of NTLM. (Not Supported) Developing a Custom Redirection PageWith this approach everyone uses the IIS URL, and IIS is configured to allow anonymous access. Your development team would need to create a custom solution as follows:
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