[volunteergrid2-l] New Node

[Jody Harris]

Dude! I take great offense to that. I think we should rename the grid to
BigpigGrid.

It's a "pet domain" of mine that is otherwise unused. If you someone wants
to spring a new domain name, we can point it at my server and I'll make the
changes.

j
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- Think carefully.


On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Brad Rupp <bradrupp at gmail.com> wrote:

> I finally got around to documenting this on the Wiki.
>
>
> http://www.bigpig.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/ConfiguringAReverseProxyForAGatewayNode
>
> The WikiName stinks.  I'm up for changing it.
>
> Brad
>
> On 1/31/2011 8:59 PM, Brad Rupp wrote:
>
>> The following is what I had to do to configure a reverse proxy on my
>> node. I am running SuSE Linux, so the configuration is specific to that.
>>
>> - Configure the Tahoe web server to only listen on 127.0.0.1:3456.
>> tahoe.cfg: web.port=tcp:3456:interface=127.0.0.1
>>
>> - Configure Apache to listen on port 3456.
>> /etc/apache2/listen.conf: Listen 10.1.1.10:3456
>>
>> - Configure a virtual host in Apache to act as a reverse proxy.
>> /etc/apache2/vhost.d/tahoe.conf: See attached.
>>
>> tahoe.conf references the digest password file via the AuthUserFile
>> directive. I created this via the htdigest2 utility that ships with
>> Apache.
>>
>> I also had to configure Apache to load the following modules:
>>
>> mod_auth_digest
>> mod_proxy
>> mod_proxy_http
>> mod_authn_file
>>
>> I did this via sysconfig in SuSE.
>>
>> That is it. I will plan to add this information to the Wiki.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Brad
>>
>> On 1/31/2011 7:23 AM, Jody Harris wrote:
>>
>>> Brad,
>>>
>>> I would like to ALSO do this with my node. Can you send me a copy of the
>>> apach configuration? It nice nice to have this documented in our wiki.
>>>
>>> j
>>> ----
>>> - Think carefully.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 3:55 AM, Brad Rupp <bradrupp at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:bradrupp at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 1/29/2011 9:31 AM, Shawn Willden wrote:
>>>
>>> Yeah, Jody took them down until he can figure out how to secure them
>>> behind a reverse proxy. If you want to make your welcome page (by
>>> default on port 3456) accessible to the net but protected behind a
>>> password-protected proxy, then we'd all have a way to check the
>>> connectivity of our own nodes. I could set up a reverse proxy
>>> for my
>>> own, but it would require figuring out how... and you already know!
>>>
>>> --
>>> Shawn
>>>
>>>
>>> That is a great idea Shawn. Done.
>>>
>>> http://if3-1.no-ip.org:3456/
>>>
>>> Your credentials will be your e-mail address as listed in the
>>> gateway. Expect a private e-mail from me with your password. Please
>>> let me know if you would like a different password as I currently
>>> don't have a password portal.
>>>
>>> A few items to note.
>>>
>>> - I chose digest authentication instead of basic authentication for
>>> security reasons. If that causes any problems let me know.
>>>
>>> - I am unable to host this over SSL right now. I don't think that
>>> should be a big deal.
>>>
>>> - I had to map the address space to the /vg2 directory (e.g.
>>> http://if3-1.no-ip.org:3456/vg2/). This is because of a bug in IE
>>> (see
>>>
>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2192811/digest-authentication-not-working-on-ie8-firefox-and-chrome-are-fine
>>>
>>> for a few more details). This may cause problems later once files
>>> start being managed via the gateway. I just can't tell yet. If we
>>> don't care about IE, I can get rid of the vg2 mapping. Firefox and
>>> Chrome work fine either way.
>>>
>>> Jody, let me know if you would rather host this on your node. I
>>> don't mind either way.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Brad
>>>
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