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--- farms:advanced [2013-11-28 17:40] – [Running farms behind reverse proxies] JimmyL
+++ farms:advanced [2022-04-21 16:56] (current) – [Disabling access to the farmer] 92.175.109.225
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 <file php>
 $config_cascade['main']['default'][] = DOKU_INC.'conf/local.php';
-$config_cascade['main']['default'][] = DOKU_INC.'conf/local.protected.php';
+$config_cascade['main']['protected'][] = DOKU_INC.'conf/local.protected.php';
 </file>
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 at the end of ''inc/preload.php'' (after the inclusion of ''farm.php'').
+coucou c'est moi le hacker
+===== Central user management =====
+If some or all of your animals shall share the users you can do that not just by using the same external authentication but also with the default user management of DokuWiki by setting the path to the user list to the same location at the end of ''inc/preload.php'':
+<code php>
+$config_cascade['plainauth.users'] = array(
+    'default'   => '/your/path/to/conf/users.auth.php',
+);
+</code>
+If you want to do that just for some animals you can of course simply add a condition based on the value of ''DOKU_CONF''.
 ===== Flexible .htaccess-based setups =====
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 The ''RewriteCond'' statements prevent redirect loops when your farmer directory is inside the animal directory. That way you can also put an animal in the root directory of a domain.
-===== Running farms behind reverse proxies =====
+===== Running a farm behind a reverse proxy =====
-This is when you set up your farm on a backend server (e.g. http://11.22.33.44) and present them to the world via a front-end Apache server (e.g. http://www.example.com).
+This is when you set up your farm on a backend server (e.g. http://11.22.33.44) and present your wikis to the world via a front-end Apache server (e.g. http://www.example.com).
 Firstly set up the farm on the backend as per the [[:farms|standard docs]].
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 On the backend server my wiki about bears (once fully setup) will be available at the following address: http://11.22.33.44/wikis/farm/bear
-However, on the frontend server I want to present my wiki with the following address: http://www.example.com/wiki/bear
+However, on the frontend server I want to present my wiki with the following address (notice I've chosen to drop the 's' from 'wikis' in this URL): http://www.example.com/wiki/bear
 Using the .htaccess type of setup, I set up ''/var/www/wikis/farm/.htaccess'' with the following code:
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 Under ''/var/www/wikis/farm/bear/conf'' I then edit **local.protected.php** like so (note: this uses the front-end address):
-<code php php>
+<code php local.protected.php>
 <?php
 /**
@@ Line 128: / Line 144: @@
 </code>
-Therefore I use [[http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_proxy.html|Apache's mod_proxy]] and set up the config in httpd.conf:
+Therefore I use [[http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_proxy.html|Apache's mod_proxy]] and set up the config in **httpd.conf** on the front-end server:
 <code apache httpd.conf>
     <Location /wiki>
       ProxyPass http://11.22.33.44/wikis/farm
-      ProxyPassReverse http://111.22.33.44/wikis/farm
+      ProxyPassReverse http://11.22.33.44/wikis/farm
     </Location>
 </code>
-This means that any animals in my farm will always be reverse proxied to the correct front-end address.
+This means that any animals in my farm will always be reverse proxied from the desired front-end address.
 This works very well until you perform certain actions (e.g. login, logout, saving edits etc.) Due to the fact that the DokuWiki engine does a redirect at these points, the end-user's browser is sent a HTTP 302 header containing the following:
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 Of course there is no page at this location on the backend server and the result is a HTTP 404 Page Not Found error message in the user's browser.
-The remedy is to use [[http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_headers.html|Apache's mod_headers]]. We amend our code block in httpd.conf like so:
+The remedy is to use [[http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_headers.html|Apache's mod_headers]]. We amend our code block in **httpd.conf** like so:
 <code apache httpd.conf>
     <Location /wiki>
       ProxyPass http://11.22.33.44/wikis/farm
-      ProxyPassReverse http://111.22.33.44/wikis/farm
+      ProxyPassReverse http://11.22.33.44/wikis/farm
       Header edit Location ^http://11.22.33.44 http://www.example.com
     </Location>