On Jun 1, 6:49 pm, Les Mikesell <lesmikes...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Prootwadl <rstei...@visi.com> wrote: > > > This setup works for me as long as I use Firebox on that box to point > > tohttp://127.0.0.1:8080and pipe the display via X through the tunnel > > created by PuTTY. > > Not sure I completely followed that... Are you tunneling a whole X > display just to see a web page on a firefox screen? Why not just > tunnel port 8080 and run firefox locally. That is, in putty, ssh > tunnels set a source 8080 and destination 127.0.0.1:8080 and when it > is connected point your local firefox athttp://127.0.0.1:8080?
Hi, Les. Thanks for the quick response! Yeah, that's what I've started by doing. Baby steps, unfortunately. I've tried various ways of tunneling 8080 via PuTTY after reading your reply, and it doesn't appear to work, at least while connected to the network via vpn. May have better luck with a hard-wired connection in the office. Of course, I'm a relative novice when it comes to ssh tunneling, so I'm sure there are several approaches I've not yet thought of, and I probably need to play with it a bit to find the right recipe. I'm an applications guy, after all, not a network or web admin. > Leave X out of the picture. And if there is an intermediate apache > server you can use as a proxy, you could let it do the forwarding for > you instead of a tunnel. My use of X was a logical first step for me, since I tend to use a handful of X-based tools when doing development on Solaris, and since I already had that tunnel working. Your response has given me a number of other ideas, tho. Very useful. Thanks! > It is just a web page. All of the usual proxy/tunnel/port-forwarding > techniques will work to make it appear elsewhere. The cleanest, if > you have a suitable apache that the viewers can access that has > back-end access to the jenkins, is a simple reverse-proxy setup, > either over http or ajp. If you don't have that, everyone might have > to do their own ssh/putty port forwarding. Unfortunately, I don't have any Apache servers available at present (my own intranet server is very simple and uses another server), but that may be changing as I explore things further. -Rich
