Using Nexus 3x with F5 Load balancer

[Jeff Dunn]

A question for the forum. 

Does anyone have any experience using Nexus behind a load balancer such as F5?

We use an F5 to Front-end all of out various internal apps, and we want to do the same with Nexus. We are be using the F5 for SSL termination. While I couldn't find any explicit documentation on this, I did find a tidbit about using apache as a proxy and SSL termination in section "2.7.3. Example: Reverse Proxy SSL Termination at Base Path" of the documentation. 

We have added the "RequestHeader set X-Forwarded-Proto "https" to our F5 config, but is there anything else that needs to be done? I am still seeing mixed content errors in the browser.

Thanks for any help in advance.

Jeff Dunnn

[Peter Lynch]

While we can't offer you a guide to configuring F5, people frequently encounter these types of challenges with it. Our basic guidance is make F5 act like the configuration suggestions we have outlined for nginx and httpd. 

On the whole, it still sounds like your F5 instance is still not configured correctly.

The only other possibility from the Nexus 2 side is that you have Force Base URL set to true (checked) in Nexus 2, when it should not be. This is explicitly called out in the documentation to not be set - so make sure you have not done that:

https://books.sonatype.com/nexus-book/reference/install-sect-proxy.html#_do_not_force_base_url

Nexus 3 does not have the Force Base URL option.

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