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| author | RPKI Documentation Robot <docbot@rpki.net> | 2013-01-31 22:00:15 +0000 |
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| committer | RPKI Documentation Robot <docbot@rpki.net> | 2013-01-31 22:00:15 +0000 |
| commit | 6f630dd97125cb984944ada9d978334e51f1dc9d (patch) | |
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| parent | e5bee68cd0f3a6d065a3af471ffeae1c8cb63ea2 (diff) | |
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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 diff --git a/doc/manual.pdf b/doc/manual.pdf Binary files differindex 8f6912cf..f9f1de13 100644 --- a/doc/manual.pdf +++ b/doc/manual.pdf |