I want to create easily and very quickly a mock rest server. So I decided to try Apache web server. In Apache, each requested URL must be linked to a file in the corresponding folder:
http://host:port/folder1/folder2 -> /var/tmp/folder1/folder2/file.data
I managed to create an alias to bind an URL with a specified file, but
how to create a generic rule to avoid creating one for each URL, and then process POST request? Is it possible to rewrite a POST request into a GET?
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I have a requirement to set up a restriction to a public url/website. Unfortunately I do not have access to this server myself. My question would be if there is an API server I can host on e.g. Azure on which I can create API/URLs (maybe also with time limit) which I can enable and/or disable. These generated URL should simply redirect to the other URL.
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Many thanks
I'm extremely new to Lua as well as nginx.we're trying to set up authentication.
I'm trying to write a script that could be injected in my NGINX which would actually listen to a an endpoint.
My api would give give me a token. I would receive this token and check if it exists in my YAML file or probably JSON file .
based on the privilege mentioned in the file, I would like to redirect it the respective url with necessary permissions.
Any help would be highly appreciated.
First of all, nginx on its own has no Lua integration whatsoever; so if you just have an nginx server, you can't script it in Lua at all.
What you probably mean is openresty, aka. the lua-nginx-module, which lets you run Lua code in nginx to handle requests programatically.
Assuming that you have a working nginx + lua-nginx-module installed and running, what you're looking for is the rewrite_by_lua directive, which lets you redirect the client to a different address based on their request.
(Realistically, you'd likely want to use rewrite_by_lua_block or rewrite_by_lua_file instead)
Within the Lua block, you can make API calls, execute some logic, etc. and then redirect to some URI internally with ngx.exec or send an actual redirect to the client with ngx.redirect.
If you want to read in a JSON or YAML file, you should do so in the init_by_lua so the file gets loaded only once and then stays in memory. The lua-cjson module comes with nginx, so you can just use that to parse your json data into a Lua table.
I read some of the answers related to the topic but my situation is a little different. I'm hosted on GoDaddy shared Linux hosting. Currently my application is setup to handle uri's as follows:
https://state.domain.com/region/client/xyz/function1
I want to change the application so the new url will be as follows. The change has been implemented and working for new clients but for my existing clients I want to this to be seamless without having them to update the url they are using to access the application. The new url would be:
https://country.domain.com/state/region/client/xyz/function1
We have quite a few clients that are using the application and I was wondering if we can use wildcards to create generic redirection. What would be the best way to achieve this?
I was reading subdomain redirection through htaccess but in my case I need the generic redirection to give me the complete uri so for example in the above case the redirected uri should be exactly as specified above. In another case if the incoming request is for
.../region/client/xyz/function2
It should be redirected to
.../state/region/client/xyz/function2
Any help would be really appreciated
I have 2 domains. http://sender.com/someServlet/ and http://receiver.com/someReceiver.
someServlet will POST some data to someReceiver. Flow is like below,
sender.com -> Apache web server of receiver.com -> Application server of receiver.com
I want to get the domain who is posting the data to receiver.com's someReceiver servlet.
Since, there is a Apache web server through which the request has to go through,
when I execute below code in someReceiver servlet, I am getting the domain of
receiver.com instead of sender.com.
request.getServerName();
This post tells to do configurations to support getServerName(); to return the actual
sender's domain. Am not sure what configurations has to be done.
How can I get the actual domain who is posting the data?
I have a pure CherryPy server which has been running for a few years already. I decided recently to add SSL support. In this case it was enough to provide the certificate and key files and to assign correct values to the variables cherrypy.server.ssl_certificate and cherrypy.server.ssl_private_key.
I would like to give a warning about this change whenever somebody tries to access a page using "http://..." instead of "https://...". Is there a simple way of achieving this without many changes in my system? Another option would be to redirect the HTTP access to HTTPS—can that be done easily?
I would create a custom handler to achieve what you're after. This automatically redirects to HTTPS.
class Functions():
def check_ssl(self=None):
# check if url is in https and redirect if http
if cherrypy.request.scheme == "http":
cherrypy.HTTPRedirect(Referer.replace("http:", "https:"))
cherrypy.tools.Functions = cherrypy.Tool('before_handler', check_ssl)