[IPython-dev] Jupyterhub behind NGINX redirect
MinRK
benjaminrk at gmail.com
Mon Nov 24 15:31:08 EST 2014
Running JupyterHub behind nginx on a prefix should be working now after this
PR <https://github.com/jupyter/jupyterhub/pull/97>.
-MinRK
On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 8:43 PM, MinRK <benjaminrk at gmail.com> wrote:
> I suspect this is just a failure to handle and test the base_url properly.
> I haven't used it behind a URL prefix yet, so I wouldn't be surprised if I
> left out the prefix in a few places.
>
> Thanks for trying it out!
>
> On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 11:13 PM, Clare Sloggett <claresloggett at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> We've managed to troubleshoot our other issues, so I'm now sure that I
>> can run jupyterhub successfully *without* a redirect. So I'm back to trying
>> to get a redirect working. I've cc'd Nuwan who's been working on this with
>> me and probably understands the issues better than I do.
>>
>> Currently, if I run something like
>> $ jupyterhub --port 9520 ----JupyterHubApp.hub_port=8500
>>
>> then I can access JupyterHub at http://my-url:9520/ . So far, success!
>> This works fine, I can log in as various linux users, edit notebooks, etc.
>>
>> What we'd like is for it to instead be available to users at
>> http://my-url/jupyter/ .
>>
>> We assumed that the command-line option JupyterHubApp.base_url is
>> supposed to be used for this. We are trying to set up an NGINX redirect
>> from /jupyter/ to :9520 and run jupyterhub so that it behaves properly in
>> this situation. However JupyterHubApp.base_url doesn't seem to be doing
>> what we expect it to. Is anyone able to explain how this parameter is
>> supposed to be used?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Clare
>>
>> On 28 October 2014 18:15, Clare Sloggett <claresloggett at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Min,
>>>
>>> Thanks for your help!
>>>
>>> Actually at the moment I have been pushed back to a more fundamental
>>> problem and can't even reproduce the error I was posting about in this
>>> email. I can't get jupyterhub to run at all. I posted this separate error
>>> in another thread, which I've just replied to a moment ago: "Error running
>>> JupyterHub".
>>>
>>> I suspect the issue is mine as I encountered it a few days ago and am
>>> still encountering it after updating to the latest commit. It seems
>>> unlikely a bug has survived through several commits without someone else
>>> discovering it too. But I'm having trouble working out what the cause is,
>>> and am not sure what to make of the error messages it's throwing (both
>>> python *and* javascript errors are thrown when it crashes). Full error
>>> printout is in that thread!
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Clare
>>>
>>> On 26 October 2014 06:34, MinRK <benjaminrk at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Clare,
>>>>
>>>> Can you update to the latest master? I think the never-ending redirects
>>>> could be the result of a recently fixed typo.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> -MinRK
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 10:01 PM, Clare Sloggett <
>>>> claresloggett at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Doug,
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for this. I had actually just been thinking about about the
>>>>> NGINX redirect issue, and had assumed everything behind that would be
>>>>> fairly straightforward. But it sounds like you are saying there may be more
>>>>> fundamental issues, and to be honest I haven't tested that the redirect is
>>>>> definitely the source of all my problems.
>>>>>
>>>>> It sounds like I need to do some more direct testing and come back!
>>>>>
>>>>> In the meantime, if anyone has insight into what could be causing a
>>>>> URL rewrite like "/ipython/ipython/hub/ipython/
>>>>> ipython/hub/ipython/ipython/hub/ipython/ipython...." that could be
>>>>> really helpful.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Clare
>>>>>
>>>>> On 13 October 2014 00:44, Doug Blank <doug.blank at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 1:35 AM, Clare Sloggett <
>>>>>> claresloggett at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Hi all,
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Am I right in thinking this list is also the right place for
>>>>>> questions about Jupyterhub?
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > I'm trying to set up Jupyterhub for multiple users, on the same
>>>>>> server where we are running several other services. Currently there are
>>>>>> NGINX redirects in place to these other services. I'd like to set up http://<public-url>/ipython/
>>>>>> to redirect to a port on localhost and run Jupyterhub over that port. Is
>>>>>> this possible?
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > I've got this working in the past with single-user IPython
>>>>>> Notebook. For that, I set config options c.NotebookApp.base_project_url,
>>>>>> c.NotebookApp.base_kernel_url, and c.NotebookApp.webapp_settings to be
>>>>>> aware of the ipython/ URL prefix. We used an NGINX redirect to forward
>>>>>> requests and handle websockets properly, which looked like
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > location /ipython/ {
>>>>>> > proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:9510;
>>>>>> > proxy_set_header Host $host;
>>>>>> > proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
>>>>>> > proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
>>>>>> > proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
>>>>>> > proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
>>>>>> > }
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > This worked for the old single-user notebook. But, I'm not clear on
>>>>>> the model Jupyterhub is using (and I'm not much of a sysadmin). I read
>>>>>> through the command-line options, thought from them that I don't need to
>>>>>> strip the /ipython/ from the incoming requests, and have tried using a
>>>>>> similar redirect to the above and setting
>>>>>> --JupyterHubApp.base_url='ipython/' and also setting --port 9510. This does
>>>>>> seem to see the incoming requests but results in amusing requests like
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > 500 GET
>>>>>> /ipython/ipython/hub/ipython/ipython/hub/ipython/ipython/hub/ipython/ipython/hub/ipython/ipython/hub/ipython/ipython/hub/ipython/ipython/hub/ipython/ipython/hub/ipython/ipython/hub/ipython/ipython/hub/ipython/ipython/hub/ipython/ipython/hub/ipython/ipython/hub/ipython/ipython/hub/ipython/ipython/hub/......
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > ... so clearly I haven't understood what's going on. Does anyone
>>>>>> have any pointers on how this should work? I haven't read any docs other
>>>>>> than the README and the command-line parameter information, so apologies if
>>>>>> there's something obvious that I didn't look at.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > I'm also interested in running Jupyterhub as a daemon, so if that's
>>>>>> something that's been done before and there's anything I should know, that
>>>>>> would be great.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There is one other document, other than the README.md and the
>>>>>> reported issues [1]:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://github.com/jupyter/jupyterhub/wiki/Using-sudo-to-run-the-server-as-non-root
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Despite the warning at the top of that page, you can make jupyterhub
>>>>>> work on some systems (eg, Linux, such as Ubuntu) using sudo, but not as
>>>>>> root. I suspect that this would be the recommended setup when jupyterhub is
>>>>>> complete. One recent change is the ability to save/load state from a
>>>>>> database. The wiki page above hasn't been updated with the note from this
>>>>>> issue:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://github.com/jupyter/jupyterhub/issues/57
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It might be easier to start without NGINX, and then add it after you
>>>>>> have a working jupyterhub system. It would be nice to have a little bash
>>>>>> script to make this a "service" that would support "start", "top", and
>>>>>> "status"... but I haven't had time. Currently, we're just becoming the
>>>>>> non-root sudoer ("rhea" in the docs) and starting the server, something
>>>>>> along the lines:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> jupyterhub --LocalProcessSpawner.set_user=sudo
>>>>>> --JupyterHubApp.ip=165.106.10.83 --JupyterHubApp.port=80
>>>>>> --db='sqlite:///:memory:' &>> /var/log/jupyterhub/log &
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The next step for us is to get it running under https... looks like
>>>>>> others have blazed that trail, so it looks possible.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If you have success, it would be great to add to the wiki docs... I
>>>>>> suspect that many of us that aren't sys admins will be wanting to get this
>>>>>> up and running.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -Doug
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [1] - https://github.com/jupyter/jupyterhub
>>>>>>
>>>>>> > Any help much appreciated!
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Clare
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
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