HI all,
My first post, i wish to share you some tips i found.
My main goal was to have access to the kiwi web site working with SSL...
But looking at Cassinni Web Server, it wasn't possible.
After searching more on this forum I found a post about a Rewriting Module with Apache ; so why dont we do it with IIS ?
Here we go !
Setup
- Win 2008 R2 , IIS 7 (with auth modules etc ...) , at least a working SSL certificate for the HTTPS listener (this post will not cover how PKI works, certs installation etc .... sorry).
- We will use the ARR 2.0 module x64 for IIS... See References at bottom for DL link, install it.
- A running Kiwi Syslog Server and the Web Access working on port 8088. Access via a browser works on this port.
Goal
- Enable the rewrite/proxy module in IIS
- Create a new IIS Web Site with HTTPS Listener on TCP Port 8090
- Create a rule to rewrite requests from 8090 to 8088
- When connecting on https://server:8090 , we would see Kiwi Web page.
HOW TO
1. Enabling the rewrite module
"C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\appcmd.exe" set config -section:system.webServer/proxy /enabled:"True" /commit:apphost
2. New Site creation
set syslogwebdir=c:\inetpub\syslog
set syslogsitename=SYSLOG
"C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\appcmd.exe" add site /name:"%syslogsitename%" /id:15 /bindings:https/*:8090: /physicalPath:"%syslogwebdir%"
3. Attach the SSL Certificate to the Binding 8090
3.1 With batch/cmd line(copy/past to a BAT file)
set CERTHASH=EnterYourHashHere
netsh http add sslcert ipport=0.0.0.0:8090 certhash=%CERTHASH% appid={00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}
3.2 With IIS Manager (if you don't know where to read Hash Certificate).
-Right Click on SYSLOG site, modify Bindings.
-Select https 8090 * Listener > Modify.
-On the "box" SSL Certificate, choose your certificate for the server.
-"OK"
4. Create the rule (copy/past to a BAT file)
set syslogsitename=SYSLOG
set syslogrulename="Rewrite to Kiwi localhost 8088"
:: Rewrite Rule creation
"C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\appcmd.exe" set config "%syslogsitename%" -section:system.webServer/rewrite/rules /+[name='%syslogrulename%']
:: Rule Parameters (one line)
"C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\appcmd.exe" set config "%syslogsitename%" -section:system.webServer/rewrite/rules /[name='%syslogrulename%'].action.type:"Rewrite" /[name='%syslogrulename%'].match.url:"(.*)" /[name='%syslogrulename%'].action.url:"http://localhost:8088/{R:1}"
5. End
Test with your browser https://localhost:8090/
Now you can access from an "admin desktop" to this new SSL web site ...
Configure your firewalls to forbid access on port 8088 to this server (or/and configure the internal Windows Firewall of this server to allow only Localhost connection on 8088).
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6. Refs Used
http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/659/reverse-proxy-with-url-rewrite-v2-and-application-request-routing/
http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/489/using-the-application-request-routing-module/
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At the beginning i was thinking to use http://mysite/syslog/ as a virtual directory, but I got some troubles with events.aspx and the rewrite module.
Inbound Rules was OK ; But Outbound Rules to rewrite URLS were not working as expected ; and filters in Kiwi were not working anymore.
That's why i decided to create a new site on another binding, with a root site ; so don't need to create Outbound Rules ...
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Sorry for my English ... i'm french :)
