[Nix-dev] Put hydra behind a reverse proxy

[Marco Maggesi]

On Sep 23, 2011, at 2:59 PM, Eelco Dolstra wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On 09/22/2011 12:40 PM, maggesi at math.unifi.it wrote:
> 
>> I would like to put my hydra sever behind a reverse apache proxy.
>> It should be served like
>> http://my.server/hydra/
>> (notice the path hydra/ at the end)
>> 
>> this is my hydra.conf file for now
>> 
>> using_frontend_proxy 1
>> base_uri http://my.server/hydra/
>> notification_sender my at email
>> 
>> However, hydra seems not to be able to cope with the relative path hydra/.
>> That is all relative url are based on http://my.server/ instead of
>> http://my.server/hydra/.
>> 
>> How can I correct this?
> 
> I think this is not possible currently.  There are a few places (I think) in the 
> source where it generates URIs under the assumption that Hydra is in /.  And 
> base_uri doesn't seem to have any effect, but I could be wrong.

That's what I suspected.

> I'll try to fix this soonish, since I may want to do the same thing, i.e., put 
> Hydra under nixos.org/hydra, mostly because I recently created a ("properly" 
> signed) SSL certificate that covers only nixos.org, not *.nixos.org.

Ok.
For now I solved the problem by setting a dedicated virtual server on a different port.

Thanks,
M.