[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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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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