Hello Jonathan,
Jonathan Aquilina [2020-04-07 5:25 +0000]:
There is a bit of a misunderstanding. Is it possible to run cockpit on a windows machine on IIS to admin linux machines?
Theoretically, it may be possible to reengineer the build system to build *just* cockpit-ws (the web server component) on Windows, if you have gnutls, glib etc., and provide the service startup manually. Normally this is controlled by systemd, through the TLS proxy cockpit-tls. But the practical answer is "no, it does not work right now and there is neither effort going on nor motivation to do so".
You can certainly place IIS in front of cockpit-ws as a reverse proxy, though. https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/wiki/Proxying-Cockpit-over-NGINX documents how to do that for nginx.
But when you use cockpit, you always have to use cockpit-ws somewhere (with a reverse proxy on top of it or not).
Martin
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