http to https with Qlikview Webserver

[HWqvadmin]

This isn't really a question as in I have managed to answer this for myself. I would like to post this in the hope it might be helpful for someone else.

I can't find anything on how to set the QVWS to auto redirect to https so here is something that I have found to work.

First, stop the web server from the Windows Services window

Then edit the file "C:\Program Files\QlikView\Web\web.config" on the server

If you have not edited this file before you will only see the configuration tags and nothing else, therefore insert the contents of the <system.webServer> tags

[Bill_Britt]

HI,

I have tried you suggested redirect and it doesn't work.  Being that the QVWS can only run on either port 80 or port 443 (not both at the same time) this makes a connection on port 80 impossible, so there is no connection to redirect.

Do you have IIS installed and using port sharing?

Bill

[HWqvadmin]

Hi Bill,

As it happens I don't have IIS installed, I've used the web server that comes with QlikView.

Attached is the document I followed to setup SSL. It is a set of instructions which manually generates the thumbprint of the server and binds the SSL certs to the server without using a GUI. It is 5 years old and may no longer be appropriate.

I'm guessing that we might be using different versions, our QlikView Server version is 12.10.204

The one thing I can't do at the moment is redirect from the root folder.

eg if the server URL was http://qlikview.server.com/

I can't redirect from there to https://qlikview.server.com/qlikview/

If you were to enter http://qlikview.server.com/qlikview/ this fix would redirect that URL to https.

If you are using IIS and you have the rewrite module installed (http://www.iis.net/learn/extensions/url-rewrite-module/using-the-url-rewrite-module)

you can install this section of configuration in the file C:\inetpub\wwwroot\web.config

That is where I copied it from on another server I look after.

Hope you find this helpful.

Steve