Using an IIS Reverse Proxy

Describes how to use Oxygen XML Web Author Component behind an IIS reverse proxy.

If you want to use Oxygen XML Web Author Component with IIS as a reverse proxy, follow this procedure:

Configure IIS to allow double escaping in URLs. See the following examples:

For Microsoft Azure, the applicationHost.xdt file should contain the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration xmlns:xdt="http://schemas.microsoft.com/XML-Document-Transform">
 <system.webServer>
  <security>
   <requestFiltering allowDoubleEscaping="true" xdt:Transform="SetAttributes(allowDoubleEscaping)" />
  </security>
 </system.webServer>
</configuration>

For other types, insert the following fragment inside the applicationHost.config file:
```
<security>
  <requestFiltering allowDoubleEscaping="true"/>
</security>
```

Configure Tomcat to allow escaped slashes. Append the following line in the tomcat\conf\catalina.properties file:
```
org.apache.tomcat.util.buf.UDecoder.ALLOW_ENCODED_SLASH=true
```
Set an environment variable to instruct Oxygen XML Web Author Component that the URL path is already decoded. Insert the following line in the tomcat\bin\catalina.bat file:
```
set "URL_DECODING_PROXY=true"
```