[Freedombox-discuss] Problems with PageKite in 0.5

Sunil Mohan sunil at medhas.org
Tue Aug 11 18:21:28 UTC 2015


On 08/11/2015 05:46 PM, Markus Sabadello wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to configure PageKite via Plinth.
> In my case, the "Server" is markus.freedombox.me, and the "Kite name" is
> markus.freedombox.me as well.
> 
> I found 2 problems and 1 potential improvement:
> 
> 1. Plinth doesn't remove the "abort_not_configured" line in
> /etc/pagekite.d/10_accounts.rc.
> This line needs to be removed, otherwise PageKite refuses to start.
> 
> 2. In /etc/pagekite.d/20_accounts.rc, Plinth writes the following:
> frontend=markus.freedombox.me
> 
> But it should actually write:
> frontend=markus.freedombox.me:80
> 
> If the port is missing, PageKite doesn't work at all.
> Of course I can put the full server AND port into the Plinth "Server" field.
> But this is not obvious, so I think Plinth should add the port :80 if
> it's missing.
> 
> 3. In /etc/pagekite.d/80_httpd.rc (and other service configurations),
> Plinth correctly writes the following:
> service_on = http:@kitename:localhost:80:@kitesecret
> 
> This is not a bug, but I propose that Plinth should also write a second
> line as following:
> service_on = http:*. at kitename:localhost:80:@kitesecret
> 
> This way, subdomains will also be tunneled to the box, could be useful
> if we want to deploy apps at subdomains rather than paths.

Could you please file these as bugs against Plinth?

-- 
Sunil

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