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Profile Manager Re-Direct Issue

Hello all,

I would be very grateful for any help with the following problem. I am just an experienced lay user although with 20+ years Mac experience and I have exhausted my knowledge.


The issue is as folllows:

I set up Lion Server and I host a Wiki page and I try to run Profile Manager.

I do not have a registered public host name. The hostname is server.name.private.


In order to reach the server from the Internet my clients use a DynDNS hostname such as "name.dyndns.org".

My clients can access the Wiki pages with no problems and Safari shows https://name.dyndns.org in the address line.

The SSL certificate seems to work.


However, if clients want to connect to Profile manager from the Internet, the server re-directs https://name.dyndns.org/profilemanager/https://server.name.private/auth?redirect=https://server.name.private/devicemana gement/api/authentication/callback


which the client's browser cannot resolve because the internal hostname is unknown to public DNS servers.


Why does Profile Manager redirect in the first place ?

Can this issue be resolved without obtaining an "official" registered public hostname ?


Thank you for helping.

Regards,

Twistan

Mac mini (Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.3)

Posted on Jul 9, 2012 7:12 PM

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