2012/5/18 Carlos Borroto <carlos.borroto@gmail.com>

Hi Julie,

Could you answer a couple of questions?

First, are you interested on integrating Galaxy with a third party
authentication system?

Second, do you expect heavy usage(I would say hundreds of concurrent
users) where you would need several Galaxy servers with the work load
balanced amount them?. Note even if you only have one Galaxy server,
you will still have several Apache processes running and you will be
able to serve multiple concurrent users without issue. Well at least
from the web server side of things, if you expect even a moderate
usage you should use a database back-end like PostgreSQL or MySQL.

If the answer to these questions is no, all you need in a
Debian/Ubuntu system is to place this in
'/etc/apache2/sites-available/default' file between the <VirtualHost>
tags:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/static/style/(.*)
/home/nate/galaxy-dist/static/june_2007_style/blue/$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^/static/scripts/(.*)
/home/nate/galaxy-dist/static/scripts/packed/$1 [L]

RewriteRule ^/static/(.*) /home/nate/galaxy-dist/static/$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^/favicon.ico /home/nate/galaxy-dist/static/favicon.ico [L]
RewriteRule ^/robots.txt /home/nate/galaxy-dist/static/robots.txt [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://localhost:8080$1 [P]

Even if the answer if yes to both questions, I would start with the
simpler setup first, get it working and then grow from there.

Hope it helps,
Carlos

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 6:59 AM, julie dubois <dubjulie@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> First, Sorry but, I'm a newbie with Apache and my questions will certainly
> appear stupid.
>
> To configure apache2, I've followed this wiki :
> http://wiki.g2.bx.psu.edu/Admin/Config/Apache%20Proxy
> And I write these instructions :
>
> <Proxy http://localhost:8080>
> Order deny,allow
> Allow from all
> </Proxy>
> RewriteEngine on
> <Location "/">
> # Define the authentication method
> AuthType Basic
> AuthName Galaxy
> AuthUserFile /home/nate/htpasswd
> Require valid-user
> # Take the $REMOTE_USER environment variable and set it as a header in
> the proxy request.
> RewriteCond %{IS_SUBREQ} ^false$
> RewriteCond %{LA-U:REMOTE_USER} (.+)
> RewriteRule . - [E=RU:%1]
> RequestHeader set REMOTE_USER %{RU}e
> </Location>
> RewriteRule ^/static/style/(.*)
> /home/nate/galaxy-dist/static/june_2007_style/blue/$1 [L]
> RewriteRule ^/static/(.*) /home/nate/galaxy-dist/static/$1 [L]
> RewriteRule ^/favicon.ico /home/nate/galaxy-dist/static/favicon.ico [L]
> RewriteRule ^/robots.txt /home/nate/galaxy-dist/static/robots.txt [L]
> RewriteRule ^(.*) http://localhost:8080$1 [P]
> </Location>
>
>
>
> But several problems appeared when I launched my Galaxy.
>
>
> First, must this instructions block be in the file apache2.conf or in the
> file default of sites-available directory ?
> If it must be in the file default, is it between the <VirtualHost> tags or
> out of these tags ?
>
> Second, I've created an htpaswd file in my home directory, but when I launch
> galaxy, it doesn't request me a login and password but it says me that
> Galaxy requires an user authentification and it must be an error in my
> apache configuration.
> Is it a problem with the instructions or with their place in configuration
> file ?
>
> Third the line </Location> appears two times in your instructions but it's
> wrong for apache. I've deleted the first but I'm note sure that Rewrite
> instructions must be in the <Location> block.
>
> And finally, I want to work with severals web processes and I want to add
> this configuration lines :
>
> <Proxy balancer://galaxy>
> ...
> </Proxy>
>
> Must I add to previous lines and where ? or Must I replace certain lines of
> previous block and if yes : which lines ?
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Julie
>

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