topic Re: Open Flex site to public in ArcGIS Viewer for Flex Questions

Open Flex site to public

ChrisOwen — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 21:26:26 GMT

I spke too soon, I was not able to access the flex site outside of the network. I will add the cross domain code in the next thread...

My flex site is ready for public consumption.
Does anyone have guidance or hints on how to make the flex site consumable from a public facing IIS server?
I have the bin-release folder ready to go, I just don't know what is needed from the outward facing IIS server. Do I need to create a crossdomain.xml?
I can provide more info if needed...
Thanks!
Chris

Re: Open Flex site to public

ChrisOwen — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 17:17:11 GMT

Here is the code I used for the cross domain.xml

<?xml version="1.0" ?> 
 <cross-domain-policy>
  <allow-access-from domain="*" /> 
  <site-control permitted-cross-domain-policies="all" /> 
  <allow-http-request-headers-from domain="*" headers="*" /> 
 </cross-domain-policy>

Do I have to explicitly define the domain?

Thanks,
Chris

Re: Open Flex site to public

JonFisher — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 16:12:08 GMT

Your crossdomain.xml file looks right as is, you should just need to put it in your webroot on the server.

That being said, we are having a trouble with the data extract widget where it's trying to access the crossdomain.xml file on our internal domain name rather than external DNS name, and we have not yet figured out how to fix that (see http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/23045-DataExtractWidget for details)

EDIT: also, make sure that the file name is crossdomain.xml rather than "cross domain.xml" (with a space) as you listed it below.

Re: Open Flex site to public

ChrisOwen — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:45:18 GMT

Thanks for the reply Jon.
The file name is named correctly and it sits on the wwwroot of the GIS Server box...still nothing.

The site is viewable (widgets, etc) but the data just does'nt display. I am going to look at the GIS Server settings, but any ideas are welcome.

Chris

Re: Open Flex site to public

JonFisher — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:50:08 GMT

Does any data display (e.g. base maps, ESRI operational layers) but not your own? Or do no map services ever display? It helps to be able to figure out if it's a problem with your map services or the application itself. Post your config.xml file and maybe we can spot something wrong there.

Re: Open Flex site to public

ChrisOwen — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 18:14:10 GMT

All of the data comes form our SDE.
Attached is the config.XML

Re: Open Flex site to public

JonFisher — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 18:27:07 GMT

the URLs pointing to your map services are incorrect. "http://gis/ArcGIS/rest/services/GISBaseMap_wwcOrtho062/MapServer" will not resolve properly. You need to replace "gis" with the DNS name of the server (e.g. gis.yourcompany.com).

An easy test: if you can't load the URL in your config file in a browser (e.g. the one listed above), it won't work in the flex map either.

Re: Open Flex site to public

ChrisOwen — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 18:34:06 GMT

Ah-Ha, let me give that a try...

Re: Open Flex site to public

ChrisOwen — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 20:43:22 GMT

I changed the rest services in the config file to have the complete DNS name, but it still doesn't work from outside the network (it still works internally, so no issue there).

Still trying to fugure this out...

Re: Open Flex site to public

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 12:54:19 GMT

Chris,

What is the url? I will be glad to run a http diagnostic on your site and tell you what is going wrong.

Re: Open Flex site to public

ChrisOwen — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 13:52:19 GMT

Thanks Robert
http://64.35.142.197:8000

Re: Open Flex site to public

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 13:56:29 GMT

Chris,

You shouldn't have a mixture of IP address and server names.

You currently have gis.ci.walla-walla.wa.us in some places and 64.35.142.197:8000 in others. Just use gis.ci.walla-walla.wa.us in all your code and xml files.

Re: Open Flex site to public

ChrisOwen — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:05:37 GMT

The crossdomain.xml is the only place I had the 64.35.142.197:8000 - could this be the culprit?

Re: Open Flex site to public

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:12:57 GMT

Chris,

Actually the DNS lookup for http://gis.ci.walla-walla.wa.us is not working. Do you have IT people that could look at this?

Re: Open Flex site to public

ChrisOwen — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:45:39 GMT

I'll have them look into this and update the post with the findings.

Re: Open Flex site to public

ChrisOwen — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 22:06:34 GMT

So, it appears the current web server does not have a reverse proxy software/service running and is the reason the rest directories/sites are not able to display - at least that is what we are concluding.

Our approach is to virtualize the existing web server (as not to disrupt the current IIS services) and install a reverse proxy whihc allows http traffic into our network. With that said, does anyone have suggestions for a simple, light-weight reverse proxy? We are running a Windows 2008 server.

If anyone has reverse proxy suggestions and some quick reasoning, this would be a tremendous help.

Thanks!
Chris

Re: Open Flex site to public

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 22:23:39 GMT

Chris,

I just use an OLD OLD server that we were going to get rid of and have that in the DMZ with Apache on it for the reverse Proxy server. Apache is one of the ones esri recommended in a white paper I read on reverse proxy configuration for ArcGIS Server.

Links:

http://resources.arcgis.com/content/kbase?fa=articleShow&d=32634
http://webhelp.esri.com/arcgisserver/9.3/dotnet/index.htm#firewalls_and_server.htm

Re: Open Flex site to public

ChrisOwen — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 13:47:20 GMT

Robert - this is perfect, a great start. I'll follow up, hopefully at the next level.

Re: Open Flex site to public

ChrisOwen — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:14:04 GMT

Robert,
So we are working on a reverse proxy (with Apache) for security. I still have nopt been able to access the flex web site from the public side..I installed Fiddler and the error still points to the domain not being accessible.

I have read that the the crossdomain.xls needs to also be installed on the proxy server. Is this the case? We do not have IIS installed on the proxy server, therefore no wwwroot folder to place the crossdomain.xml, but if this is a requirement, it will be one step closer to making it work.

Can you confirm this requirement?

Thanks,
Chris

Re: Open Flex site to public

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:25:30 GMT

Chris,

Put it in the htpdocs folder on the Apache server.