SharePoint 2013, F5 and SSL Offload
I have been struggling to get SharePoint Search to index the content of my SharePoint site using the F5 guide http://www.f5.com/pdf/deployment-guides/sharepoint-2010-iapp-dg.pdf.
We have split DNS environment
My set up is as follows:
SharePoint Enterprise Server 2013 (SP1)
Multi-tenant environment using host header site collections. The default "SharePoint - 80" web application URL is for arguments sake is https://company.com
2 sharepoint app servers & 2 sharepoint web servers
The SharePoint Web Application was set up on default port 80
I have set up the SharePoint Alternative Access Mappings as the guide suggests:
Internal URL:https://company.com
Zone:Default
Public URL:https://company.com
Internal URL:http://company.com
Zone:Default
Public URL:https://company.com
The search content access (crawl account) has read access to the web application.
We are using the F5 SharePoint 2013 iApp template RC3 found here: https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iApp.Microsoft-SharePoint-2013-iApp-Template.ashx
In DNS we have an A record for company.com pointing to F5 virtual server IP address (no host file additions on SharePoint servers)
In the search content sources I have used the default "Local SharePoint sites" content source and have just one "start address" which is:
https://company.com
I have performed an index reset and full crawl but get messages like:
"This item could not be crawled because the repository did not respond within the specified timeout period. Try to crawl the repository at a later time, or increase the timeout value on the Proxy and Timeout page in search administration. You might also want to crawl this repository during off-peak usage times."
This is still a test environment so no real load of any concern on servers.
Does any have any ideas what migh be going wrong? ALSO... I have disabled the Minimal Download Strategy feature but still have problems with some functionality when accessing the site using https.
e.g
Cannot modify list views
Cannot view eclipse drop down menu on list items, documents and so on.
All a bit baffling. Any help greatly appreciated!