[Labs-l] Help needed with instance proxy

Wed Jan 30 08:38:29 UTC 2013

Hi Roan and Liangent,

thanks for your explanations - how cool! \o/
Cheers, Silke

Am 30.01.2013 09:19, schrieb Liangent:
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Roan Kattouw <roan.kattouw at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2013/1/29 Silke Meyer <silke.meyer at wikimedia.de>:
>>> Hi Ryan and all,
>>>
>>> you proposed me to try the instance proxy to access several web services
>>> on different labs instances via one IP address.
>>>
>>> I found https://labsconsole.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proxy - but that's still
>>> really short. How do I use it???
>>>
>> Generally, assuming you have a web service running on port 80 as
>> usual, you can go to http://<instancename>.instance-proxy.wmflabs.org/
>> , and it'll Just Work. For instance, I have an instance called
>> ve-change-marking (FQDN: ve-change-marking.pmtpa.wmflabs) running
>> MediaWiki and I access it at
>> http://ve-change-marking.instance-proxy.wmflabs.org/wiki/ .
>>
>> You don't need any special setup for this. As long as the
>> instance-proxy instance (instance-proxy itself runs in a labs instance
>> :D) is able to connect to port 80 on your instance, these URLs will
>> work. Note that if you're running MediaWiki on the instance, you may
>> have to explicitly configure $wgServer =
>> 'http://foobar.instance-proxy.wmflabs.org'; for it to work, otherwise
>> MediaWiki may get confused and try to redirect you to
>> http://foobar.pmtpa.wmflabs or something.
> 
> You may also want to set $wgSquidServersNoPurge[] = '10.4.1.15'; for MediaWiki.
> 
> btw. I guess this IP might change if I delete and recreate that
> instance. Is there a good way to avoid hard-coding this?
> 
> -Liangent
> 
>>
>> Roan
>>
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