Setting Up a Mid-Server with a proxy connection - password encryption

[Fabian Kunzke]

Hello all,

I have had the opportunity to set up a lot of mid-servers lately. And i have found a helpful, yet vastly unknown "feature" with the setup via the installer. As most already know, mid-servers can be run through a defined proxy. Now when using the installer the user is required to provied a username and a password along with it. Same goes for the credentials for the plattform itself. But here is the difference:

After the installer is done, your instance password will have the following variable added to it:

<parameter encrypt="true" name="mid.instance.password" value="encrypted: ... "/>

Here the installer automatically adds the "encrypt" part to the password, preventing it from being readable within the configuration file. However it does not do this for the proxy password:

<parameter name="mid.proxy.password" value=" ... "/>

Therefore the proxy password can be read within the configuration file. This is easily fixed by just adding the variable to the parameter and restarting the mid-server. That then should look something like this:

<parameter encrypt="true" name="mid.proxy.password" value="encrypted: ... "/>

Greetings

Fabian