Glad you got it working.

Bill

On 8/23/10, Patrick A. Treptau <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Bill,
>
> it actually looks like we were able to resolve the issue by restarting the
> proxy server.
>
> From the Zimbra forums: "We've been using CAS (the one bundled with SunGard
> Luminis) with the zimbra proxy without any issues for a while now. One thing
> I've notice is that the proxy is very sensitive to changes and will need
> stopping and starting if there has been a change to the mailbox server's
> zimbra.web.xml.in config file or the preauth.jsp page."
>
> http://www.zimbra.com/forums/administrators/42683-casifying-zimbra-zimbra-proxy.html
>
> Duh.
>
> Thank you for your help!
> -Patrick
>
> Patrick A. Treptau
> Sr. Systems Administrator
> Swarthmore College
> phone (610) 328-8508
> e-mail [email protected]
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "William G. Thompson, Jr." <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: "Don Tedesco" <[email protected]>, "Leslie Leach"
> <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 3:28:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [cas-user] CASiying Zimbra with Proxy
>
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Patrick A. Treptau
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Bill,
>>
>> thanks for the reply. The Zimbra proxy server is a reverse HTTP proxy
>> (and POP/IMAP server) that hides the mailbox servers from the end user
>> and provides one URL for all users to login (ie. webmail.example.com)
>> and redirects the user to their mailbox server (ie. mail1.example.com
>> or mail2.example.com). When a user hits the proxy, the preauth URL is
>> forwarded and handled by the individual mailbox servers. Mailbox
>> servers work the preauth, redirect to CAS login, where user logs in
>> and get the ticket. However since the ticket is for mail1.example.com,
>> mail.example.com (the proxy) refuses to have anything to do with it,
>> so I assume that the preauth has to reside on the proxy? All
>> connections run through the proxy. Our web team has pointed the CAS
>> service to http*://mail*.example.com:*/** (mailbox servers), shouldn't
>> it point to the proxy?
>
> Yes. It sounds like you need the CAS client at the Proxy Server so that
> CAS.
>
> Bill
>
>
>
>
>
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>> -Patrick
>>
>> Patrick A. Treptau
>> Sr. Systems Administrator
>> Swarthmore College
>> phone (610) 328-8508
>> e-mail [email protected]
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "William G. Thompson, Jr." <[email protected]>
>> To: [email protected]
>> Cc: "Don Tedesco" <[email protected]>, "Leslie Leach"
>> <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 2:18:31 PM
>> Subject: Re: [cas-user] CASiying Zimbra with Proxy
>>
>> When the user hits the Proxy are they immediately redirected to CAS or
>> first to the mailbox which does the redirect? You might just need to
>> get the "service" paramater right based on which mailbox server you
>> want to direct the user to.
>>
>> Or...you might need the CAS Client up at the Zimbra Proxy in addition
>> to the mailbox servers.
>>
>> Can you explain what role the Zimbra Proxy server plays? Does it
>> check AuthN prior to routing the user to the mail server? Is it out
>> the picture at that point, or do all connections run through the
>> Proxy?
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Patrick A. Treptau
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> We are in the process of CASifying some of our services and ran into
>>> some issues with CASifying Zimbra. We currently have 2 mailbox
>>> servers hooked up to a Zimbra Proxy that redirects the user based on
>>> their mailbox to the correct mail server (IMAP/POP/HTTP). We have
>>> gone through the documents to CASify Zimbra v6, but our web developer
>>> hit a
>>> road block with ticket retrieval from Zimbra. Our preauth, along with
>>> the CAS client is hosted on both Zimbra mailbox servers (not the
>>> proxy, is this the problem?). Upon login, the user hits the proxy and
>>> is correctly redirected to CAS, logs in and is granted a ticket, but
>>> the proxy is unaware of the ticket, since the ticket is issued to the
>>> mailbox server, not the proxy. Does anyone have any solution for this
>>> or experience with CASifying Zimbra in a proxied Zimbra environment?
>>>
>>> Any help would be greatly appreciated. We are running CAS 3.3.5 and
>>> Zimbra 6.0.6.
>>>
>>> Thank you very much,
>>> -Patrick
>>>
>>> Patrick A. Treptau
>>> Sr. Systems Administrator
>>> Swarthmore College
>>> phone (610) 328-8508
>>> e-mail [email protected]
>>>
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