James,

Funny enough I was thinking of the same hack, but as you said sounds a bit
nasty.  Hopefully there is a better solution.  Also for me, I may not
always have local admin rights on my client machine which I believe is
required to change the hosts file.

Thanks,
Robert

On Wed, Jan 10, 2018, 00:18 James Wing <[email protected]> wrote:

> Robert,
>
> I had the same problem.  One workaround I have used was to add the DNS
> name to the /etc/hosts file with a local IP address, so that I could
> configure that name in nifi.web.http.host and NiFi would still bind to the
> right IP.  It sounds like a nasty hack now that I describe it, but it
> worked.
>
> Perhaps someone else knows a more elegant configuration?
>
> Thanks,
>
> James
>
> On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 7:33 AM, Robert R. Bruno <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I just ran into this as well while trying out 1.5.0-SNAPSHOT.
>>
>> What is the solution where you are running nifi behind a proxy?  I tried
>> setting nifi.web.http.host to my proxy ip but then nifi attempted to bind
>> to this ip address.
>>
>> Hopefully I am missing something.  If not any chance a config value for
>> allowed proxies before the release?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 15, 2017, 19:26 Mike Thomsen <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks. Is that documented?
>>>
>>> On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 7:02 PM, Andy LoPresto <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Mike,
>>>>
>>>> This is a recent change introduced in 1.5.0-SNAPSHOT (master). You can
>>>> resolve this by setting nifi.web.http.host in nifi.properties to the value
>>>> of SERVER_HERE.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Andy LoPresto
>>>> [email protected]
>>>> *[email protected] <[email protected]>*
>>>> PGP Fingerprint: 70EC B3E5 98A6 5A3F D3C4  BACE 3C6E F65B 2F7D EF69
>>>>
>>>> On Dec 15, 2017, at 3:32 PM, Mike Thomsen <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I get this error after I installed a new build:
>>>>
>>>> The request contained an invalid host header [SERVER_IP:8080] in the
>>>> request [/]. Check for request manipulation or third-party intercept.
>>>>
>>>> In the logs it says:
>>>>
>>>> 2017-12-15 18:34:59,937 WARN [NiFi Web Server-66]
>>>> o.a.n.w.s.HostHeaderSanitizationCustomizer Request host header
>>>> [SERVER_HERE:8080] different from web hostname [(:8080)]. Overriding to
>>>> [:8080/nifi/]
>>>> 2017-12-15 18:34:59,938 WARN [NiFi Web Server-66]
>>>> o.a.nifi.web.server.HostHeaderHandler Request host header
>>>> [SERVER_HERE:8080] different from web hostname [localhost(:8080)].
>>>> Overriding to [localhost:8080/nifi/]
>>>> 2017-12-15 18:35:00,059 WARN [NiFi Web Server-59]
>>>> o.a.n.w.s.HostHeaderSanitizationCustomizer Request host header
>>>> [SERVER_HERE:8080] different from web hostname [(:8080)]. Overriding to
>>>> [:8080/favicon.ico]
>>>> 2017-12-15 18:35:00,059 WARN [NiFi Web Server-59]
>>>> o.a.nifi.web.server.HostHeaderHandler Request host header
>>>> [SERVER_HERE:8080] different from web hostname [localhost(:8080)].
>>>> Overriding to [localhost:8080/favicon.ico]
>>>>
>>>> Never saw this with 1.4 and earlier. Any ideas?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Mike
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>

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