Making Sage work well with a proxy is no simple matter. I run a number of web sites where we proxy through Apache to get SSL and generally more robust web services facing the outside world. For this to work well your backend needs to be proxy aware, or the proxy has to know a lot about the backend and do deep rewriting of js and css. The backend that is probably most applicable to Sage is the Plone CMS, which is written in python and uses a package called VirtualHostMonster to handle getting proper URLs in things that go through a proxy. This does work well, but might be difficult to get working in the Sage notebook. There is also a significant learning curve associated with setting up these proxys even with VirtualHostMonster.
This is not easy. I put Sage behind an SSL proxy and had significant problems. I found it better to serve SSL directly from Sage. Jonathan On Feb 11, 2:48 pm, Keshav Kini <keshav.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 04:27, Michael Orlitzky <mich...@orlitzky.com> wrote: > > Rather than build SSL support into the application servers, everyone > > deployed apache or nginx as an SSL proxy in front of them. Could this work > > for the sage notebook? > > > The notebook would always run on e.g. localhost:8080 unencrypted, without > > linking to OpenSSL. If someone wants to make his notebook server public, he > > downloads nginx/apache and a tiny config file that proxies 0.0.0.0:8080 to > > localhost:8080, possibly using SSL. > > This sounds good to me. William was also musing about whether > out-of-the-box SSL support in the notebook was really that important, > a while > ago:https://groups.google.com/d/topic/sage-devel/Jl11JxIb2E8/discussion > . IMO we can extend that reasoning to whether SSL support in the > notebook is really that important at all, out-of-the-box or otherwise. > As long as we provide instructions on how to use nginx as a backend to > provide SSL, we're not really losing functionality, just increasing > inconvenience a bit for those who want to use SSL. > > -Keshav > > ---- > Join us in #sagemath on irc.freenode.net ! -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
