[Accessing WebUI through Apache reverse proxy]

Months go by and still no luck. Still stuck with this dumb "/gui/" (talk of a non-informative url...)

 

At least, please consider providing a configuration option for that base directory (e.g. in the .conf file, under the webui section), something along these lines:

"webui" :        {                "listen" : "127.0.0.1:8888",                "login" : "username",                "password" : "userpassword",                "basedir" : "btsyncGUI"        }

so that the webui becomes accessible (and reverse-proxyable) at "http://127.0.0.1:8888/btsyncGUI/"

 

Shouldn't be rocket science...

 

I posted instructions for making this work using nginx here: http://forum.bittorrent.com/topic/20710-nginx-as-reverse-proxy-for-the-config-page/#entry66870

 

It's been working great for me.

[nginx as reverse proxy for the config-page]

Here's the magic incantation for nginx to get this to work:

location /btsync/ {    proxy_pass              http://localhost:8888/gui/;    subs_filter             /gui /btsync;}

If you understand this config you will see it is a very ugly hack, but that the point we're at right now 

[Accessing WebUI through Apache reverse proxy]

There are many other reasons to want to access the Web UI through a reverse proxy other than just enabling SSL. You could enable many other types of authentication, for example.

Editing a binary file to embed a cert is... not a great configuration methodology.

[Accessing WebUI through Apache reverse proxy]

Well, tried a little harder and it sorta works. This was the magic incantation that worked for me:

	 RewriteRule ^/btsync$ /gui/ [R]
	 RewriteRule ^/btsync/ /gui/ [R]
	 RewriteRule ^/gui$ /gui/ [R]
	 ProxyPass /gui/ http://localhost:8888/gui/
	 <Location /gui/>
		 ProxyPassReverse http://localhost:8888/gui/
		 Order Allow,Deny
		 Allow from All
	 </Location>

It redirects /btsync to /gui but at least it works. Hope that helps someone out there.

[Accessing WebUI through Apache reverse proxy]

Has anyone managed to setup Apache so that you can access the web UI through a reverse proxy? Everything I've tried just redirects me to /gui and I can't get it to work.

This would be very useful to have because I would like to access the web UI through SSL via my own webserver. Thanks for any help.