This page last changed on May 23, 2008 by smaddox.

If you are running applications behind one or more proxy servers, you may find it useful to configure Crowd to trust the proxies' IP addresses. When a proxy server forwards an HTTP request, Crowd will recognise the request as coming from the request's originator, not the proxy server. This is particularly useful if you want single sign-on amongst several applications running behind different proxy servers.

Configuring a trusted proxy server means that Crowd will use the rightmost IP address of the X-Fowarded-For: header when verifying the client's IP address.

Crowd allows a maximum of 15 proxy server IP addresses.

This feature is available from Crowd version 1.4.1.

To configure Crowd to trust a proxy server,

  1. Log in to the Crowd Administration Console.
  2. Click the 'Administration' tab in the top navigation bar.
  3. Click 'Trusted Proxy Servers' in the left-hand menu.
  4. The 'Trusted Proxy Servers' screen appears. Type the IP address of the proxy server.
  5. Click the 'Add' button.

Screenshot: Trusted Proxy Servers



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