[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Proxying and AppConfig[:frontend_url]

[Brian Hoffman]

Hi,

If you are planning to leave each virtual server open to the world, you should be fine just recording the application urls (example: AppConfig[:backend_url] = ‘archivesspace-api.example.org’). But if you are going to restrict www access to the api service or the staff interface, you’ll need to do something like what’s described here: https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace/blob/master/README_HTTPS.md <https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace/blob/master/README_HTTPS.md>.  The proxy settings you mentioned are useful if the frontend_url is localhost:8080 but port 8080 isn’t accessible to end users.

Brian



> On May 4, 2016, at 12:30 PM, Stephen Schor <stephenschor at nypl.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> 
> I'm looking to deploy ASpace using NGIX as a proxy to present the various apps on port 80.
> For example:
> 
> proxy port 8080 to archivesspace-staff.example.org <http://archivesspace-staff.example.org/>     to port 80
> proxy port 8081 to archivesspace-public.example.org <http://archivesspace-public.example.org/>  to port 80
> proxy port 8089 to archivesspace-api.example.org <http://archivesspace-api.example.org/>       to port 80
> 
> I'm interested in what the consequences are of leaving the boilerplate setup in config.rb would be?
> It was this section that caught my attention:
> 
> ## Proxy URLs
> ## If you are serving user-facing applications via proxy
> ## (i.e., another domain or port, or via https, or for a prefix) it is
> ## 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] }
> 
> 
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