Hi,
I have a 2 part question.
Part 1:
I have configured ARR 2.5 and URL rewrite 2.0 on my laptop to be a reverse proxy to a reporting services server in native mode. The report server does not have IIS installed and is using Windows Authentication. Right now, it is hosted on an external network and is available via http on port 80.
My laptop is not part of a domain, neither is the report server and there are no common usernames between the two.
I used the reverse proxy template that came with URL rewrite 2.0 to map incoming requests to localhost to report-server-hostname/reportserver. The localhost site has only anonymous authentication enabled.
When I try to load localhost in IE, I get the expected challenge in IE, but it will not authenticate. It keeps repeating the challenge even though I am entering the right user name and password. Using this username/password on the report server directly works fine.
I feel I am on the right track but I have a small bit of configuration missing somewhere. Can someone help? I have tried to read the forums and haven't found a similar issue.
The reverse proxy configuration is clearly working. When I use it to point to my company website instead, it shows my company website on localhost perfectly.
I am using Windows 8 on my laptop and the report server is a Windows Server 2012, SQL Server web edition.
Part 2:
The reason for the above gymnastics is that I want to hide the authentication challenge. I was hoping that if I can get a reverse proxy working, I can somehow configure the IIS on my laptop in such a way that it will authenticate with the report server without sending the challenge to the browser.
Is that indeed possible?
Thanks very much.
Devang