[X2Go-User] x2gi broker, wsgi

[Gil Laycock]

It seems my main problems were trying to access the broker through a
reverse proxy.

On 17/09/2020 17:19, Gil Laycock wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to set up an x2go broker using x2gobroker-wsgi, and it seems
> to be almost working - but fails at the last hurdle.
> 
> I have a pool of x2go servers running (that work fine individually); and
> listed in a pool in x2gobroker-sessionprofiles.conf (They do require an
> ssh proxy, which I specified in the sessionprofiles)
> 
> I have a central pgsql db successfully recording sessions for the x2go
> servers.
> 
> On the broker server, from the command line:
>  * using x2gobroker-testauth succeeds
>  * the load balancer seems to be working fine
>  * command line running x2gobroker --task listsessions shows the session
> configured in x2gobroker-sessionprofiles.conf
> 
> I have the x2gobroker-wsgi set up as a virtualhost.
> With debugging turned on, and most authentication disabled (so I'm
> expecting to have to log in first to the broker multiple times), I can
> visit in a browser to
> 
> https://broker.my.domain/plain/   (also to .../plain/inifile )
> 
> and it just says "Access granted".
> 
> If I use x2goclient, I try
> 
> x2goclient --broker-url=https://broker.my.domain/plain --debug
> 
> In x2goclient I then get a login screen, followed by a pop-up error
> message: "Host requires authentication"; the debug messages say:
> Broker HTTP request failed with error: "Host requires authentication"
> 
> The apache log file just shows successful connections.
> 
> I was expecting to get a choice among the pool of servers...
> 
> I feel like I am missing something small but critical.
> 
> 

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