Running a reverse proxy in front of Splunk 4.x

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Published on 2009-11-16T09:08:49Z Indexed on 2010/03/17 11:01 UTC
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So, I have previously installed Splunk 3.x behind a reverse proxy and downloaded the latest version (4.0.6 at time of typing) expecting it to be as easy to use as before. Sadly this was not the case. There appears to be some elements which are not being translated correctly through the reverse proxy, causing Splunk to fail.

I have used the following configuration in Apache2 to no avail:



    ServerName monitoringbox.com
    DocumentRoot /path/to/nowhere

    ProxyRequests off
    ProxyPass /splunk http://127.0.0.1:8000/splunk
    ProxyPassReverse /splunk http://127.0.0.1:8000/splunk
    
        Order  allow,deny
        Allow  from all

Has anyone else had more luck than me in setting up Splunk 4.x behind a reverse proxy?

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