[ckan-committers] Exposing Apache on deployments

Thu Aug 28 08:11:42 UTC 2014

Note, we need to also change the package. Let's modify all of them at one
go.

Nigel Babu
Developer, Open Knowledge

On 28 August 2014 11:08, Nigel Babu <nigel.babu at okfn.org> wrote:

> +1
>
> Let's do it.
>
> Nigel Babu
> Developer, Open Knowledge
>
>
> On 28 August 2014 00:49, Vitor Baptista <vitor at vitorbaptista.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was moving the Pakistan staging site earlier today, and I noticed that
>> our install instructions suggests that we make Apache listen on all
>> interfaces. This means that both DataPusher and the Apache backend is
>> accessible from the Internet (e.g. http://demo.ckan.org:8080 and
>> http://demo.ckan.org:8800). Is there any reason for this? If not, it
>> would be good to change them to only listen to the local interface.
>>
>> This isn't a big improvement, but at least we don't expose ourselves to
>> possible Apache (or DataPusher) bugs.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> --
>>
>> Vítor Baptista
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