Questions tagged [arr]

Acronym of Application Request Routing - an extension for IIS7.0+ to load balance HTTP requests to multiple web servers.

Application Request Routing (ARR) is free extension for IIS7.0+ to provide load-balancer and functionality. The purpose is increase Web application scalability and reliability through rule-based routing, client and host name affinity, load balancing of HTTP server requests, and distributed disk caching.

ARR has several features:

  • Reverse proxy/web publishing
  • Support multiple load balancing algorithms
  • Health checking
  • Caching
  • Content delivery network (CDN)
  • SSL Offloading
  • Layer 4 and 7 routing decisions
  • Usage reporting
  • Cookie based affinity
  • Application affinity opt-out
  • Rich API
  • Websocket support

ARR manual can be found in official IIS homepage.

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ARR Redirecting Rule (ERROR 404)

Well I'm using ARR to make IIS act as a front-end to Tomcat where my application is. The rule I'm using is working only for the first index page and that would be it. Rule is Patter (Wildcards) *myapp* Rewrite To: http://myserver:8080/myapp/ I…
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Redirecting using ARR 400.0 error

I have installed ARR 2.5 + hotfix on IIS 8.5, and I wanted to redirect requests coming to IIS to my Tomcat web application (Example localhost/test). I created rules and it worked successfully, but I'm implementing SSO on this webapp, so I need to…
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Configuring IIS ARR for backend client certificate authentication

I have an IIS server configured with ARR to reverse proxy requests to a backend server. The backend server requires client certificate authentication, however, it only needs to authenticate the reverse proxy (not the end user). The end user…
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Distinguishing called URL for response rewriting for tomcat app via IIS ARR reverse proxy

Hi to the community at Serverfault! I have an issue while trying to configure my IIS to open the respective manager APP on two Tomcat Servers on the same machine. When I call the sites directly via http://servername:8081/manager and…
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IIS ARR pass-through Windows authentication does not work

I have a similar problem as described here: ARR 3 IIS 7.5 Windows Authentication not working Unfortunately that solution does not work on our servers. In our test environment we have an ARR server (Win 2012, IIS 8.0) and a web server (Win…
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filter requests based on path using ARR w/ IIS 7.5, on the site level

I've got two sites configured on different ports, one for public and one for trusted connections. I've got filters on URLs within the ARR settings, for some internal URLs that shouldn't be proxied at all. I'd like to be able to block requests to…
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NLB ARR cross-node setup

Given: one ASP.NET web application 2 Windows servers with IIS installed (no more servers allowed) I want to enable load balancing / failover for that application, on both server and application levels. My plan is: 1) Install the web application on…
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IIS 7.5 Reverse Proxy URL Re-Write to website with gzip

If we own www.ourdomain.com and wanted to rewrite the url to say www.google.com, how would we deal with gzip compression on say the google domain. I'm trying to do a proof of concept and i believe the issue is the website we are trying to rewite to…
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IIS 8.5 Outbound rewrite rules cannot be applied when the content of the HTTP response is encoded ("gzip")

I'm configuring IIS to work as a proxy in front of several java web servers. I know that static compression cannot be enabled when using rewrite rules because the outbound rule won't work. There are several post concerning this issues and some blog…
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IIS URL Rewrite and Reverse Proxy

I have a reverse proxy rule that forwards all requests to a specific subdomain to an internal server and everything works great.
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IIS8 and ARR 3.0 using different SSL certificates

We would like to use our expensive company named SSL certificate on the ARR load balance server and rewrite URLs to the content (web)servers which will use a general wildcard SSL certificates. Is this possible or is it restricted to using the same…
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Reverse Proxy Authentication in Internet Explorer

I am using IIS ARR as a reverse proxy for Team Foundation Server 2013. When I use Firefox and Chrome I get prompted for a password, enter it, and gain access to the correct site. However, when I use Internet Explorer (v11.0.2), when I enter my…
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Can I set up IIS 8 to reverse proxy some POSTs to an external server?

I've pointed www.myoldsite.com to a new IP address, and that IP address hosts www.mynewsite.com on IIS8. I'm trying to reverse proxy some POSTs back to www.myoldsite.com via ARR but I'm not able to get it to match the Request URI pattern. I have…
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ARR troubleshooting 502.3 / WinHttp tracing on Server 2012

I have the following scenario: 3 windows server 2012 virtual servers, all with IIS 8: 1 server with Application Request Routing 3 2 servers with the web applications that the ARR server routes to I am getting intermittent 502 3 12002…
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(Chrome/IE) 502.3 error encountered when POST-ing a file to an SSL-enabled IIS server running ARR that routes to JBoss

I am trying to get a file upload function to work on my site. It basically POSTs an image + image_id to the server. The server is running IIS7 with ARR. I have JBoss AS 7 running in the server as well, but have opted to route requests to it using…
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