IIS 7.0 - Application Request Routing (ARR)

Re: Setting Up ARR with WSS, OWA, .NET Apps, and Linux Servers

anilr — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:59:47 GMT

ARR has a setting called preserveHostHeader which controls whether the original host header will be preserved or the new destination used as the host header - set this to true to preserve the host header.

Re: Setting Up ARR with WSS, OWA, .NET Apps, and Linux Servers

liamdye — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:39:07 GMT

They aren't wildcard, it was just an example. Real address are cwa.liamdye.ca owa.liamdye.ca mail.liamdye.ca portal.liamdye.ca But doesn't that now mess up the host headers because everything let's say that gets forwarded to 10.10.0.2 doesn't preserve the old host header.

Re: Setting Up ARR with WSS, OWA, .NET Apps, and Linux Servers

anilr — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:35:54 GMT

You cannot use wildcards in rewriteMaps - it has to be the exact literal string to match - looks like you want 3 rules, one to match each pattern.

Re: Setting Up ARR with WSS, OWA, .NET Apps, and Linux Servers

liamdye — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:08:49 GMT

So I have gone in and pretty much translated the script into UI. And in my Rewrite Map have three entries. Original value: owa.*.ca New value: "server name that hosts owa" Original value: cwa.*.ca New value: "server name that hosts cwa" Original value: portal.*.ca New value: "server name that hosts the portal"

Re: Setting Up ARR with WSS, OWA, .NET Apps, and Linux Servers

anilr — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:19:08 GMT

globalRules can only be used in applicationhost.config - you need to use rules in web.config files - also, if you are a bit unsure about using IIS configuration, use the UI to configure things and it will do the right job.

Re: Setting Up ARR with WSS, OWA, .NET Apps, and Linux Servers

liamdye — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:03:00 GMT

Thanks for the suggestion, however after adding that to my web.config file of my default web site (the one that is running owa) it gives me an application runtime error.

I host sharepoint and owa on the same box and use host header redirects. Then on another box on my network I have CWA currently on port 444 but I would like to transition it over to 443 so the main server that is hosting OWA looks at the host header and if the host header is cwa.*.com it points it to my other server. If the host header is either owa.*.com or portal.*.com it leaves it on the local machine.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Re: Setting Up ARR with WSS, OWA, .NET Apps, and Linux Servers

anilr — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:45:17 GMT

That would be in IIS configuration file - either applicationhost.config or your site's/app's web.config file - change globalRules to rules in case of the latter. You will also need to enable ARR's proxy functionality.

Re: Setting Up ARR with WSS, OWA, .NET Apps, and Linux Servers

chapmanjw — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:39:57 GMT

Ok, one last question then, where do I configure that rewrite map that you posted?

Re: Setting Up ARR with WSS, OWA, .NET Apps, and Linux Servers

anilr — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:17:42 GMT

The following rule using rewritemaps would send request using host1 to server1, host2 to server2 etc - edit as per your need

Setting Up ARR with WSS, OWA, .NET Apps, and Linux Servers

chapmanjw — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:33:43 GMT

Hello,

I am wondering if this is the best tool to fit my scenario, and if it is how do I do it?

I have on Win2k8 server that is the gateway between my ISP and my network (I only have one public IP) running DNS/NAT/DHCP, etc. All of my domain names for my IIS applications, Linux web applications, WSS, Exchange, OWA, etc point to that single IP address. What I need to accomplish is having all incoming traffic to that server routed to the correct web server based on the host name used.

I have one farm running IIS (includes WSS, OWA, and .NET apps) and another farm running linux for php applications.

Will using ARR allow me to correctly route to both the Windows IIS farm and the linux farm? If it does, how do it do it?

Thanks,

John