Proxy through nginx

[GitHubGeek]

Dear Zedapp Team,

For self-hosting, is it possible to proxy the zedrem daemon using nginx? If yes, would you be able to publish instructions on how to do it? Reason is to use virtual hosts to have multiple services running under port 443.

[zefhemel]

Yes, but your proxy has to support websockets, otherwise it won't work. Not sure nginx does support that. — Zef

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On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 3:41 AM, Jay Yu [email protected] wrote:

Dear Zedapp Team,

For self-hosting, is it possible to proxy the zedrem daemon using nginx? If yes, would you be able to publish instructions on how to do it? Reason is to use virtual hosts to have multiple services running under port 443.

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[thegaragelab]

It is possible to proxy through nginx (which does support websockets). There would need to be some changes as to how zedrem establishes the connection though:

1. Include the 'Host' header in the connection request so nginx can correctly route the request to the appropriate virtual host. See http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/request_processing.html
2. Add support for SNI (see http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/configuring_https_servers.html#sni) to allow the target hostname to be specified in the SSL handshake process.

The server implementation in Zedrem should not require any changes and the Zed app itself should inherit these capabilities from the browser anyway (I haven't verified this yet).

This would be a great feature to have, I imagine it would be a pretty common use case for small organisations.