Protecting the admin console

Mario_Gamito · April 22, 2007, 3:30pm

Hi,

Is it possible to protect the HTTP admin console with a username/password box like Apache’'s .htaceess ?

If so, how ?

Any help would be appreciated.

Warm Regards,

Mário Gamito

LG1 · April 22, 2007, 5:15pm

Hi Mário,

no it’'s not. Unless you are using a reverse HTTP proxy in front of the openfire web console.

What would be the benefit of using a HTTP Basic authentication instead of a form based authentication?

LG

Mario_Gamito · April 22, 2007, 7:51pm

Hi,

“What would be the benefit of using a HTTP Basic authentication instead of a form based authentication?”

None, except to please my boss will

Can you tell me how do I do that with the proxy ?

I have an Apache with mod_proxy in the same machine as Openfire.

Thanks in advance.

Warm Regards,

Mário Gamito

GSMD · April 23, 2007, 7:34am

I’'ve tried reverse proxying like this:

Yet get

Proxy Error

The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server.

The proxy server could not handle the request GET /index.jsp.

Reason: DNS lookup failure for: localhost:9090index.jsp

Could Openfire developers explain on how to put Openfire behind apache2?

Thanks.

LG1 · April 24, 2007, 8:35pm

Hi,

you may want to add a trainling / to your config, like

LG