[Catalyst] Re: [Catalyst-dev] Trouble with ProxyPass

[Tomas Doran]

Hi Jillian.

You wanted the Catalyst list, not the dev list - the dev list is for the development of Catalyst itself :)

On 17 Jun 2013, at 12:44, Jillian Rowe <jir2004 at qatar-med.cornell.edu> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm having trouble getting my application running under ProxyPass using
> Apache. I'm not entirely sure if it my worries lie in catalyst or
> apache. I do have another application (not catalyst) which uses
> proxypass with the exact same SSL config and its fine.
> 
> It will display pages fine, but when I go to submit a form I get the
> following:
> 
> "Although this page is encrypted, the information you have entered is to
> be sent over an unencrypted connection and could easily be read by a
> third party.
> 

This is as URIs in your form are being generated as http://, not https://

> Are you sure you want to continue sending this information?"
> 
> 
> This is what my apache config looks like:
> 
> 
>        ProxyRequests On
>        ProxyVia On
>        ProxyReceiveBufferSize 16384
>        <Location />
>                ProxyPass http://127.0.0.1:3000/
>                ProxyPassReverse http://127.0.0.1:3000/
>                SetEnv force-proxy-request-1.0 1
>                SetEnv proxy-nokeepalive 1
> 
>                SSLRequireSSL
>                SetHandler perl-script
>                RequestHeader set X-URL-SCHEME https

You want:

RequestHeader set X-Forwarded-HTTPS ON


>                Order allow,deny
>                Allow from all
>        </Location>
> 
> I have $c->config->{using_frontend_proxy} = 1.
> 

And also this setting to get Plack::Middleware::ReverseProxy loaded (see the source code for that for the why I think you need the other header)

> My application works fine if I just do localhost:3000, and it also works
> fine when I run it as a fastcgi application. I do not get the security
> warning when running either under development or fastcgi.
> 
> I am looking into using the proxypass option solely for development. I
> am working on an application that uses very big data and log into a
> virtualbox for it. I have several file locations that are references to
> urls.
> 
>  Alias /bigdata /data/share/web_public/bigdata
>        <Directory /data/share/web_public/bigdata>
>           AllowOverride All
>           Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
>           order Allow,Deny
>           Allow from all
>        </Directory>
> 
> So I need something happening with apache I think. Is there anyway to
> get Catalyst to alias those paths for me?

Yes! You can do that quite easily :)

If you make a controller responsible for those paths, then you can just use the static file plugin to serve them.. E.g.

package MyApp::Controller::BigData;
use Moose;
use namespace::autoclean;

BEGIN { extends 'Catalyst::Controller' }

sub bigdata: Chained('/') Args {
    my ($self, $c, @path) = @_;
    # This method comes from Catalyst::Plugin::Static::Simple
    $c->serve_static_file('/data/share/web_public/bigdata/' . join('/', @path));
}

I've just mashed this out on the bus - so debugging/fixing will surely be needed - but something fairly close to this should work!

> 
> I have really been making my head explode over this, and help would be
> very appreciated!!!


Good luck! If you're still struggling then hopping on irc and asking for help could be your best (fastest) way to resolve.

Cheers
t0m