[Archivesspace_Users_Group] proxy issue

[Brian Hoffman]

Hi Mang Sun,

Have you looked at the guide for configuring HTTPS?

https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace/blob/master/README_HTTPS.md

Brian


On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Mang Sun <mang.sun at rice.edu> wrote:

> 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 >
> ####
>
> 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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