Password Protection Through a Firewall

[ivpotter]

Hi

I am trying to setup a site that listens on an internal facing IP and a public facing IP and I have configured basic password authentication. However ...

When I access the site via the internal IP everything is fine (I am prompted for a login and can subsequently enter the site) but if I use a PC on a separate network and come in via the public IP address (via a firewall, switch and load balancer) then the site is not available.

Removing the password protection renders the site publicly visible again.

Does anyone know what is going on? Do we need to setup some additional rules in the firewall?

Many thanks.

Ivor

 

[ivpotter]

Resolved!

Putting password authentication in place led the load balancer to believe that Apache was not running and therefore it stopped forwarding requests.

Ivor