NTLM sharepoint when use nginx reverse proxy

[Jason Whittington]

I posted this a few weeks ago – I hope it helps you.  I did this with nginx plus, so it may not work if you are using the open-source product.


NTLM authentication authenticates connections instead of requests, and this is somewhat contradicts HTTP protocol, which is expected to be stateless. As a result it doesn't generally work though proxies, including nginx.



NGINX can support it though, you need to use the "ntlm" directive. Below is an [stripped down] example of how I have it set up in front of TFS.  I would think Sharepoint would be very similar.  This has worked very reliably for like a year.



upstream MyNtlmService {

        zone backend;

        server 192.168.0.1:8080;

        server 192.168.0.2:8080;

        #See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10395807/nginx-close-upstream-connection-after-request

        keepalive 64;

        #See http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_upstream_module.html#ntlm

        ntlm;

}

    server {

        listen 80;



        location / {

            proxy_read_timeout 60s;

            #http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21284935/nginx-reverse-proxy-with-windows-authentication-that-uses-ntlm

            proxy_http_version 1.1;

            proxy_set_header Connection "";



            proxy_pass http:// MyNtlmService /;

        }

    }








From: nginx [mailto:nginx-bounces at nginx.org] On Behalf Of Payam Chychi
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2018 8:05 AM
To: nginx at nginx.org
Subject: [IE] Re: NTLM sharepoint when use nginx reverse proxy


On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 4:32 AM Francis Daly <francis at daoine.org<mailto:francis at daoine.org>> wrote:
On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 04:15:31AM -0500, sonpg wrote:

Hi there,

> myserver requires NTLM authentication. I access myserver through nginx proxy
> and provide correct auth info,but the browser prompt auth again.

http://nginx.org/r/ntlm

nginx does not support NTLM authentication.

If you need something to reverse-proxy a http server that uses NTLM, you
must write the code to make your nginx do it, or you must use something
that is not stock-nginx.

If you choose the latter, "NGINX Plus" is one thing that does advertise
NTLM support. Other things probably exist too.

        f
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Pass it to squid for NTLM auth
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