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diff --git a/docs/netdata-agent/configuration/running-the-netdata-agent-behind-a-reverse-proxy/Running-behind-lighttpd.md b/docs/netdata-agent/configuration/running-the-netdata-agent-behind-a-reverse-proxy/Running-behind-lighttpd.md index 637bc0642..48b9b2c93 100644 --- a/docs/netdata-agent/configuration/running-the-netdata-agent-behind-a-reverse-proxy/Running-behind-lighttpd.md +++ b/docs/netdata-agent/configuration/running-the-netdata-agent-behind-a-reverse-proxy/Running-behind-lighttpd.md @@ -1,26 +1,17 @@ -<!-- -title: "Netdata via lighttpd v1.4.x" -custom_edit_url: "https://github.com/netdata/netdata/edit/master/docs/netdata-agent/configuration/running-the-netdata-agent-behind-a-reverse-proxy/Running-behind-lighttpd.md" -sidebar_label: "Netdata via lighttpd v1.4.x" -learn_status: "Published" -learn_topic_type: "Tasks" -learn_rel_path: "Configuration/Secure your nodes" ---> - -# Netdata via lighttpd v1.4.x +# Running Netdata behind lighttpd v1.4.x Here is a config for accessing Netdata in a suburl via lighttpd 1.4.46 and newer: -```txt +```text $HTTP["url"] =~ "^/netdata/" { proxy.server = ( "" => ("netdata" => ( "host" => "127.0.0.1", "port" => 19999 ))) proxy.header = ( "map-urlpath" => ( "/netdata/" => "/") ) } ``` -If you have older lighttpd you have to use a chain (such as below), as explained [at this stackoverflow answer](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14536554/lighttpd-configuration-to-proxy-rewrite-from-one-domain-to-another). +If you have older lighttpd you have to use a chain (such as below), as explained [at this Stack Overflow answer](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14536554/lighttpd-configuration-to-proxy-rewrite-from-one-domain-to-another). -```txt +```text $HTTP["url"] =~ "^/netdata/" { proxy.server = ( "" => ("" => ( "host" => "127.0.0.1", "port" => 19998 ))) } @@ -31,19 +22,16 @@ $SERVER["socket"] == ":19998" { } ``` - - If the only thing the server is exposing via the web is Netdata (and thus no suburl rewriting required), then you can get away with just -``` +```text proxy.server = ( "" => ( ( "host" => "127.0.0.1", "port" => 19999 ))) ``` -Though if it's public facing you might then want to put some authentication on it. htdigest support -looks like: +Though if it's public facing you might then want to put some authentication on it. `htdigest` support looks like: -``` +```text auth.backend = "htdigest" auth.backend.htdigest.userfile = "/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.htdigest" auth.require = ( "" => ( "method" => "digest", @@ -55,14 +43,12 @@ auth.require = ( "" => ( "method" => "digest", other auth methods, and more info on htdigest, can be found in lighttpd's [mod_auth docs](http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/wiki/Docs_ModAuth). - - It seems that lighttpd (or some versions of it), fail to proxy compressed web responses. To solve this issue, disable web response compression in Netdata. -Open `/etc/netdata/netdata.conf` and set in [global]\: +Open `/etc/netdata/netdata.conf` and set in `[global]`: -``` +```text enable web responses gzip compression = no ``` @@ -71,5 +57,3 @@ enable web responses gzip compression = no You would also need to instruct Netdata to listen only to `127.0.0.1` or `::1`. To limit access to Netdata only from localhost, set `bind socket to IP = 127.0.0.1` or `bind socket to IP = ::1` in `/etc/netdata/netdata.conf`. - - |