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| author | Rob Austein <sra@hactrn.net> | 2013-02-05 21:04:06 +0000 |
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| committer | Rob Austein <sra@hactrn.net> | 2013-02-05 21:04:06 +0000 |
| commit | 64d850653d295c68c2476362c4c217f4a32a63a2 (patch) | |
| tree | 16bd8f4386c7a920f5973076edda891472693156 /doc/doc.RPKI.CA.UI.GUI | |
| parent | a44a83c31a03614e9ec0b590782802c8672383d9 (diff) | |
Pull from trunk.
svn path=/branches/tk377/; revision=5030
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diff --git a/doc/doc.RPKI.CA.UI.GUI b/doc/doc.RPKI.CA.UI.GUI index 4b887e60..5fad466f 100644 --- a/doc/doc.RPKI.CA.UI.GUI +++ b/doc/doc.RPKI.CA.UI.GUI @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ sets $PYTHONPATH and $DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE. ***** Prerequisites ***** -* Django +* Django 1.3 or later * Django South 0.7.6 or later @@ -83,6 +83,34 @@ If you've only done the above bootstrap, there will only be a single handle to manage, so the GUI will automatically bring you to the dashboard for that handle. +**** Running the web portal as a different user **** + +By default, the web portal is run in embedded mode in mod_wsgi, which means it +runs inside the apache process. However, you can make the web portal run in +daemon mode as a different user using mod_wsgi. + + $ ./configure --enable-daemon-mode[=user[:group]] + +Where user is the optional user to run the web portal as, and group is the +optional group to run the web portal as. If user is not specified, it will run +in a separate process but the same user as apache is configured to run. + +Note that when run in daemon mode, a unix domain socket will be created in the +same directory as the apache log files. If the user you have specified to run +the web portal as does not have permission to read a file in that directory, +the web interface will return a 500 Internal Server Error and you will see a +permission denied error in your apache logs. The solution to this is to use the +WSGISocketPrefix apache configuration directive to specify an alternative +location, such as: + + WSGISocketPrefix /var/run/wsgi + +Note that this directive must not be placed inside of the VirtualHost section. +It must be located at the global scope. + +see http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/ +ConfigurationDirectives#WSGISocketPrefix for more information. + ****** Installation of Route Views Support for the GUI ****** If you want ROA creation to tell the user what routes are in the global routing |