[chef] Re: run chef server on different URL

[Jon Wood < >]

On 10 September 2010 09:03,  
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 wrote:
> Do you know how to run chef server so a client can access it using e.g.
> http://mychefserver:4000/chef-server-api ?
>
> I need it because I have frontend apache proxy that is used by
> many different clients including chef-client.
>
> I have configured the proxy to to forward requests
> https://myproxy/chef-server-api to http://mychefserver:4000/
> but it does not work as the mixlib-authentication library used by
> chef-client use URI PATH for creating signature
> and because the leading part of the URI PATH for the original request was
> cut off by the proxy, the chef-server receives different
> URI PATH, calculate a non matched signature and authentication of the
> request fails.
>
I'd try using this configuration by Miguel Cabeç and Jonathan Matthews
as a starting point:
http://jpluscplusm.com/blog/2010/07/06/hosting-a-chef-webui-and-api-behind-the-same-ip-port-and-ssl-certificate/

Jon