[Engine-devel] 3.3 scratch or upgraded installation must use Apache proxy (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/905754)

[Barak Azulay]

On May 6, 2013, at 19:45, Alon Bar-Lev <alonbl at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I don't understand why you start discussion from start... there were some additional facts.
> 
> So first answer:
> No we cannot assume we own the machine nor own the apache, nor own the postgresql. These assumptions made in the past were plain wrong and cause more harm than good, and eventually saved no resources nor efforts.
> 
> At master we altered the ajp proxy configuration to be less intrusive[1][2].
> 
> We split the http configuration into three:
> 1. Install ajp proxy per our URIs[1].
> 2. Optionally set root redirection from / to /ovirt-engine
> 3. Optionally configure mod_ssl with our certificate.

I don't know if this was already brought up,

There is a conflict between our configuration and IPA's
IPA uses mod_nss and we use mod_proxy and mod_ssl , and this creates a conflict.

We can try move to mod_nss on upgrade and solve all issues

Barak



> 
> The mandatory apache configuration[1] does not alter any configuration file, hence the chance of conflict is the chance of conflict between ovirt-engine URIs and other product URIs.
> 
> ovirt-engine URIs:
> ---
> /UserPortal
> /OvirtEngineWeb
> /webadmin
> /docs
> /spice
> /ca.crt
> /engine.ssh.key.txt
> /rhevm.ssh.key.txt
> /ovirt-engine-style.css
> /console.vv
> /api
> /ovirt-engine
> ---
> 
> As we have done this without cooperation of developers we kept URIs as-is.
> 
> URIs that cannot be changed until next major:
> /engine.ssh.key.txt
> /rhevm.ssh.key.txt
> /ca.crt
> /api [I guess, although we can provide migration path alternative]
> 
> All the other can be moved into /ovirt-engine with cooperation of developers, especially UI and Virt developers, it should be easy to do this, and reduce the chance of conflict.
> 
> Regards,
> Alon Bar-Lev.
> 
> [1] http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/13318/
> [2] http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/14304/
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Sandro Bonazzola" <sbonazzo at redhat.com>
>> To: "engine-devel" <engine-devel at ovirt.org>
>> Cc: "users" <users at ovirt.org>
>> Sent: Monday, May 6, 2013 6:32:08 PM
>> Subject: [Engine-devel] 3.3 scratch or upgraded installation must use Apache    proxy
>> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/905754)
>> 
>> Hi,
>> I'm working on https://bugzilla.redhat.com/905754, trying to have Apache
>> proxy in all 3.3 installations.
>> 
>> I'm looking in the code and I've found a point where I'm in doubt about
>> how to handle the case.
>> The current engine-setup implementation perform some checks that change
>> the behavior of the installer documented as:
>> 
>> 1. Check whether the relevant httpd configuration files were changed, as
>> it's an indication for the setup that the httpd application is being
>> actively used, Therefore we may need to ask (dynamic change) the user
>> whether to override this configuration.
>> 
>> 2. Check if IPA is installed and drop port 80/443 support. What the
>> script really do is setting OVERRIDE_HTTPD_CONFIG default to False in
>> both cases and just for case 2 call also setHttpPortsToNonProxyDefault.
>> 
>> 
>> About 1, if we can consider Apache "owned" by the engine we can drop any
>> question to the user, else I think we need to ask what to do or abort
>> the setup considering the configuration as unsupported.
>> 
>> About 2, it seems that the best solution for that is to abort the setup
>> if IPA is found on the same system where
>> we're installing the engine.
>> As far I've understood having IPA and engine on the same host is not a
>> supported configuration.
>> 
>> 
>> What do you think about this?
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Sandro Bonazzola
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