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Redirecting http to https

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T163019

What is the best way to redirect all traffic to https? I have tried the following but it results in an infinite loop:

$HTTP["scheme"] == "http" {
    $HTTP["host"] =~ ".*" {
        url.redirect = (".*" => "https://%0$0")
    }
}

Thanks,
Sam Wilson 06:19, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

I believe this is impossible with ~/.lighttpd.conf alone. I looked at a similar question and the source code of the suggested solution mod_extforward, but after adding:

server.modules += ( "mod_extforward" )

extforward.forwarder = ( "all" => "trust")

to ~/.lighttpd.conf $HTTP['scheme'] still always was http. So we would have to write our own lighttpd module which we probably won't do :-).

The bigger picture of making Tool Labs https-only is tracked as phab:T102367, and it's probably best to solve this there globally. --Tim Landscheidt (talk) 10:11, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

@Tim Landscheidt: Hmm, bother! Ah well, it's a shame it can't be done in .lighttpd.conf, but as you say it's something that will be solved globally (at some point). In the meantime I'm doing this: https://github.com/wikisource/ia-upload/commit/66c62dfafb10d82797974a8fd6e394d6b3106d4a (based on code in video2commons). I might add a note to this page about how to do this.

Sam Wilson 10:29, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

Creating a virtual environment for a Python app

python3 -m venv ~/www/python/venv

Does not seem to work, see also https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T140103

The Phabricator task suggests instead:

virtualenv -p python3 venv

Apparently the command needed depends on which host operating system you are using. On a Toolforge bastion you need the virtualenv -p python3 venv form and will end up with a Python 3.4.0 virtual environment. Inside a Kubernetes python container you need to use the python3 -m venv ~/www/python/venv form and will end up with a Python 3.4.2 virtual environment. --BryanDavis (talk) 19:48, 5 July 2017 (UTC)