[ome-users] insight.jnlp and Nginx redirection

[Niko Ehrenfeuchter]

On 01.02.2013 15:09, Julien Jourde wrote:
> Hi Omero-users,
>
> I just installed a 4.4.5 omero server in my lab. Everything's fine
> except when I try to launch Insight using the jnlp protocol.
>
> The problem seems to come from the redirection of the port 80 to the
> port 443 in nginx.
>
> I'm using "rewrite ^ https://$server_name$request_uri? permanent;" in my
> omero.conf file to accomplish that. But the jnlp file can't deal with
> that. It contains urls like
> "http://my.omero.server.fr/webstart/jars/insight.jnlp" where it shoud be
> "https://my....". Launching the jnlp leads to a launchfile error because
> it tries to charge a web page unproperly created by nginx (see below).
>
> Did I made something wrong by using redirection rules ? Is there a way
> to do it more properly ?

we experienced exactly the same problem here - I'll go and ask the 
person who fixed it (or created a workaround, can't remember that) what 
he did.

Cheers
Niko