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Connecting to SDL WorldServer 10 through a proxy server

To connect to SDL WorldServer 10 through a proxy server, configure the processes that host Translation Manager (the Translation Manager Windows service and the SDL Web user interfaces, plus any custom processes you may have set up) to use that proxy server.

Procedure

  1. Access your Content Manager server.
  2. Navigate to %TRIDION_HOME%\Translation Manager\.
  3. Open Tridion.TranslationManager.Service.exe.config for editing.
  4. Inside the configuration root element, add the following:
    <system.net>
      <defaultProxy>
        <proxy usesystemdefault="false" proxyaddress="PROXYURL" bypassonlocal="true" />
      </defaultProxy>
    </system.net>

    where PROXYURL is the URL of your proxy server. The URL can contain the username, password and port as follows:

    https://USER:PASSWORD@BASEURL:PORT
    where:
    • USER is the name of a user who can connect through the proxy server (optional)
    • PASSWORD is a valid password for this user to connect through the proxy server (optional)
    • BASEURL is the server name or IP address of the proxy server
    • PORT is the port number of the proxy server (optional)
  5. Save and close Tridion.TranslationManager.Service.exe.config.
  6. Restart the SDL Tridion Translation Manager Windows service.
  7. Navigate to %TRIDION_HOME%\web\.
  8. Open Web.config for editing.
  9. Inside the configuration root element, add the following:
    <system.net>
      <defaultProxy>
        <proxy usesystemdefault="false" proxyaddress="PROXYURL" bypassonlocal="true" />
      </defaultProxy>
    </system.net>

    where PROXYURL is the URL of your proxy server, formatted as above.

  10. Save and close Web.config.
  11. If you have any custom processes set up that talk to the Translation Manager API directly, configure those processes to use the proxy server as well.

What to do next

The processes that host Translation Manager can now connect to WorldServer through the proxy you specified. They can no longer connect to any systems where the proxy cannot be used. If the processes still need to connect to such systems, you must configure these connections to bypass the default proxy.