ArcGIS 11.3 web-hosting under nginx are we required web-adaptor

[riteshpurbey]

Hello 'El, 

Please confirm: For ArcGIS 11.3 web hosting under NGINX, is the Web Adaptor required? What will be the NGINX virtual hosting configurations?

As of now we've setup below

1. Web-server 

2. Portal

3. Data-Store + Server

Note: Using Ubuntu 22.04 OS. 

Best Regards,
RP

[JeffSmith]

Hi @riteshpurbey 

Yes, you can use NGINX on your web server without a web adaptor.  That will work fine.  NGINX will need to listen on port 443 and you'll need to define a unique "location" directive for both Portal and Server and proxy to ports 7443 and 6443 respectively.  Make sure to include the X-Forwarded-Host header as well that matches the hostname of the web server.  Here is an example:

location /portal/ {
    proxy_http_version 1.1;
    proxy_pass https://example.domain.com:7443/arcgis/;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host "nginx.hostname.com";
}
location /server/ {
    proxy_http_version 1.1;
    proxy_pass https://example.domain.com:6443/arcgis/;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host "nginx.hostname.com";
}

You will also need to define the "WebContextURL" system property for both Portal and Server.  More information on that can be found in the help doc.