[Archivesspace_Users_Group] proxy issue

[Mang Sun]

After not touching this issue for a while until yesterday, I re-picked 
up this issue and spent some time combing through the code and now I 
think the problem has been largely resolved. Actually, the directive 
line of AppConfig[:frontend_proxy_url] = "https://ASurl" in config.rb 
seemingly does not play the role as intended or I thought. Instead, it's 
because  the Apache Proxy does not out of box forward the protocol (here 
https) that was used by browser to access AS (AS does not talk to APACHE 
in secured mode?) to the AS application.   In order to pick up and carry 
this protocol info to AS, one new Apache directive line of  ' 
RequestHeader set X-Forwarded-Proto "https" '
  is added to the Apache secured virtual host configuration and brings 
it into looking similar to the below.
###
<VirtualHost *:443>
RequestHeader set X-Forwarded-Proto "https"
ProxyPreserveHost On
....
ProxyPass / http://AShostname:8080/
ProxyPassReverse / http://AShostname:8080/
ServerName AShostname
</VirtualHost >
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Corrections and comments are welcome.

Mang Sun
Rice U.


On 11/20/2014 2:50 PM, Mang Sun wrote:
> Plus, the view buttons in the frontend interface also run into the 
> same problem of https being stripped down to http.
>
> -Mang
> On 11/20/2014 2:11 PM, Mang Sun wrote:
>> I have set up Apache as the proxy server with http://ASurl pointing 
>> to http://ASurl:8081 and https://ASurl pointing to http://ASurl:8080
>> and also set the the following two lines in config.rb
>>
>> AppConfig[:frontend_proxy_url] = "https://ASurl"
>> AppConfig[:public_proxy_url] = "http://ASurl"
>>
>> and seen proxy work roughly well except that the following url can't 
>> be handled well.
>> https://ASurl/resolve/edit?uri=/repositories/2/resources/115&autoselect_repo=true 
>>
>>
>> The above link through the resolver will be redirected to 
>> http://ASurl/resources/115/edit where https is replaced by http and 
>> we see the message of "The page you were looking for doesn't exist". 
>> The vesion of AS i am testing with is v.1.1.0.
>>
>> Any idea again ?
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>> Mang Sun
>> Rice U.
>>
>>
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