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Anonymous
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6 years ago
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PBIRS behind nginx

I need to place PBIRS behind nginx for policy reasons, and I seem to be getting 401/400s. I followed the directions for putting it behind an NLB (the only concrete step I took was to create the BackConnectionHostNames key, and add `localhost` and the hostname of the machine to it), but it still doesn't work (fast fail to 401/400, if I attempt to use 127.0.0.1 I can get a login prompt that I can't pass).

 

I don't see more detailed logs about these requests (not in the PBIRS logs, and not in the Event Viewer).

 

How can I fix this?

authentication
proxy
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    6 years ago

    The issue was that nginx (the free version) cannot forward NTLM authentication (technically this is because NTLM authentication happens for a session, not for a request).

     

    We ended up having to use IIS with custom scripts to do what we wanted to do

     

    Sorry I could not be of more help

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  • g-decenci01's avatar
    g-decenci01
    New Member
    6 years ago

    Hello Soandos,

     

    Were you able to make Report Server work with nginx?

    I need to do the same thing and for me only the authentication screen appears after that the error 400 appears.

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      Not applicable
      6 years ago

      The issue was that nginx (the free version) cannot forward NTLM authentication (technically this is because NTLM authentication happens for a session, not for a request).

       

      We ended up having to use IIS with custom scripts to do what we wanted to do

       

      Sorry I could not be of more help