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I am looking for advice on what to set the FME_SERVER_WEB_URL parameter to.

In our current install it is set to our internal network address, e.g. http://<networkURL>:80

This seems to generally be working fine, but using the FMEServerJobSubmitter is problematic. This requires us to connect to FME Server using the FME_SERVER_WEB_URL, but we can only connect to FME Server using our external URL, e.g. https://<myfmeserver>.com, as there is a security certificate on the server that uses this URL.

Should we be using this external URL for FME_SERVER_WEB_URL?

Are there any ramifications to changing FME_SERVER_WEB_URL to the external URL?

Thanks

Keith

Hi @keithhastings,

To help me better understand your question please could you explain what documentation you followed/the steps you took up to set up this external URL?

Hi @keithhastings,

To help me better understand your question please could you explain what documentation you followed/the steps you took up to set up this external URL?

I'm afraid I can't Holly. I had no involvement with the set up of the server, external URL, certificates etc. Would it be normal for our security certificate to be OK with both internal and external URLs?

I'm afraid I can't Holly. I had no involvement with the set up of the server, external URL, certificates etc. Would it be normal for our security certificate to be OK with both internal and external URLs?

Hi @keithhastings,

The reason I was asking is given your FME_SERVER_WEB_URL is set to http://<networkURL>:80 it doesn't look like the internal URL has been set up with a security certificate as one of the steps to do this is to modify this parameter so it uses https. I don't think there would be any harm in changing this parameter to use your external URL instead, just be sure to restart the Core Service so the changes can take affect.

As a precaution I would recommend simply copying and commenting out the original value so that if it doesn't work as expected, you can return back to the old set up.

You may also wish to modify the service URLs to use the external URL - it may be a good idea to cast your eye over the Configuring for HTTPs documentation as steps 3 and 4 go through this.

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