Archives week 27 of 2014

Since I got asked about this in email I'll post it here for the google-verse. Say you want to allow your developers to use RunSnakeRun running in a virtualenv on an Ubuntu distribution.  You'll recall that normally to run RSR as a utility you do:

$ sudo apt-get install python-wxgtk2.8
$ pip install --user SquareMap ...

So you have an internal device the web-gui of which you want authenticated users to be able to access.  You've got nginx running on the front-end server. You're willing to open up a port on the outside firewall, but all access on that port needs to go through your main web-app's permissions. You setup an ...