Off campus playback via Innovative Interfaces WAM proxy fails

This article provides solutions that WAM proxy customers have found resolved off campus playback issues

Pre-requisites

Digital Theatre+ have configured the system with all the IP addresses and IP address ranges that users will present from.  Typically these will be the IP address(es) of your proxy and potentially public facing IP address ranges for your institutions networks.

Configure forward tables

The WAM proxy forward table will need the following entries in place (for proxied domains:

  • edu.digitaltheatreplus.com
  • digitaltheatreplus.com
  • images.ctfassets.net
  • d10eeigq6mvk6z.cloudfront.net
  • cdn.contentful.com

Add Subject Alternative Names (SAN) to the SSL certificate

Add the proxied URLs as Subject Alternative Name (SAN) URLs to the SSL certificate, for example:

  • 0-edu.digitaltheatreplus.com.subdomain.institute.edu
  • 0-media.digitaltheatreplus.com.subdomain.institute.edu