[Archivesspace_Users_Group] localhost urls

[Mark Cooper]

Hi Steve,

Those links use the settings defined for:

## recommended that you record those URLs in your configuration
#AppConfig[:frontend_proxy_url] = proc { AppConfig[:frontend_url] }
#AppConfig[:public_proxy_url] = proc { AppConfig[:public_url] }

The proxy urls by default use the values as defined for AppConfig[:frontend_url] and AppConfig[:public_url]. So you could edit the value in either place, although if you're going to be using a proxy you'll want to set the proxy values directly and not fallback on the default (proc) way of setting the values.

It's highly recommended to set those values to something other than the default (localhost) otherwise you'll miss some functionality that uses the proxy values (such as edit links in the public interface) -- but I'm not sure that's suggested anywhere aside from the comments in the config file, so it looks like a README update to make that more clear would be a good thing.

Mark

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From: archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org <archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org> on behalf of Steven Majewski <sdm7g at virginia.edu>
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Subject: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] localhost urls

On our test server frontend admin page:   http://archives-test.lib.virginia.edu:8080
( running a distribution built from github current master branch )
both the “View Public Interface” link at the bottom, and the links generated from
“View Published” buttons  generate links to http://localhost:8081/  instead of
to archives-test.lib…

The same thing occurs with “View Staff Interface” from the public page.

I assume this can be fixed by changing the config.rb line:

        #AppConfig[:public_url] = "http://localhost:8081”


But Is this a bug, or a requirement ?

If it’s a requirement, I don’t think it’s clearly documented in the READMEs.
My impression was that you only had to edit the config settings if you wanted a change from the defaults.


— Steve Majewski