[volunteergrid2-l] New Node

Jody Harris jharris at harrisdev.com
Tue Feb 8 20:25:25 PST 2011


Oh, well.... good! I can quit pretending to be mad at you, then.

How about renaming it to "Reverse Proxy Configuration?"

jody
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- Think carefully.


On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 9:20 PM, Brad Rupp <bradrupp at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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