[volunteergrid2-l] New Node
Brad Rupp
bradrupp at gmail.com
Tue Feb 8 20:20:20 PST 2011
Hahaha. I wasn't saying bigpig.org stinks. I was saying
ConfiguringAReverseProxyForAGatewayNode stinks.
Brad
On 2/8/2011 8:18 PM, Jody Harris wrote:
> 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
> ----
> - Think carefully.
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Brad Rupp <bradrupp at gmail.com
> <mailto: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 <http://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
> <http://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>
> <mailto: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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