nginx as reverse proxy

Stef Walter stefw at redhat.com
Thu Apr 2 08:40:00 UTC 2015


On 02.04.2015 01:55, Rouven Rastetter wrote:
> Hi, I did not find any information regarding the use of a http reverse
> proxy (e. g. nginx) in front of the cockpit http server.
> Specifically I want nginx to do all the TLS stuff while it connects to
> cockpit via plain http.

Nice.

> I got this to work by changing the "Origin" Http-Header from https to
> http. Otherwise cockpit complains about a "bad Origin".

In addition, with Cockpit 0.49 and later, there is a config option where
you can set the Origins that are accepted:

http://files.cockpit-project.org/guide/cockpit.conf.5.html

> I included the nginx config sample as attachment.
> 
> I hope this can help others trying to set this up with nginx and maybe
> it can be added to the wiki on github.

Sure that sounds like a good idea. Would you like to start a wiki page
called "Proxying Cockpit"?

Stef


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