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Re: [EP-tech] https, again

From: Timothy Miles-Board <tmb AT ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 10:41:54 +0100


Threading: [EP-tech] https, again from peter.schober AT univie.ac.at
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Peter Schober wrote:
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> timothy,
> 
> thanks for the idea, I might try this on a new archive.
> 
> * Timothy Miles-Board <tmb AT ecs.soton.ac.uk> [2007-05-02 13:02]:
>> There may be a simpler approach to HTTPS (single repository):
>>
>> 1) remove the <VirtualHost *:80> and </VirtualHost> lines 
from the
>> archives/ARCHIVEID/var/auto-apache.conf file
> 
> you'd have to disable generate_apacheconf then ("exit 0;" in the 
first
> line or something a bit more verbose ;), otherwise changes will be
> lost if this is ever run (by mistake, e.g.).
> or hack generate_apacheconf itself and remove the vhost there (even
> more error prone and easily lost during upgrades).

I would suggest running generate_apacheconf, then copying the 
auto-apache.conf file to e.g. auto-apache.ssl.conf and use that (remove 
VirtualHost lines and include this file in ssl.conf)

> 
>> 2) include the file directly in your ssl.conf
>> 3) replace http with https in the base_url setting of 
archives/ARCHIVEID/cfg/cfg.d/20_baseurls.pl (ignore the secure_url and 
secure_urlpath settings)
>> 4) Add a redirect to your httpd.conf from http://REPOSITORYURL to 
https://REPOSITORYURL
> 
> while this might work (for simple cases, like you said), I suppose
> many will need vhosts to make use of e.g. phpMyAdmin (or something
> like that) since eprints always grabs <Location "/">.
> 
> regards,
> -p.schober
> 

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Timothy Miles-Board
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