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@braican braican commented Sep 7, 2022

This ports over some logic initially thought about during the BSO project to allow for us to set up any domain to access a site running on the ups.dock network.

A typical use case might be to be able to read a cookie set on a specific domain in our local environments to mock authentication (as was the case for BSO).

To set up a custom domain

Note that this is also documented in this doc.

Assuming you have this branch checked out in your local ups.dock repository:

  1. Add a DNS resolver to your machine for the domain you'd like to access:

    echo -e "nameserver 127.0.0.1\nport 53535\n" | sudo tee /etc/resolver/local.bso.org
  2. Open up the config/openssl.conf config file in your local ups.dock repo and add your domain to the list of alternate_names:

    DNS.3 = local.bso.org
    

    Note that the line should follow numerically after whatever the previous DNS record is.

  3. Still in your local ups.dock repo, remove the existing certs and reinstall:

    rm certs/ups.dock.*
    ./bin/install.sh
    docker-compose up -d
  4. In the docker-compose file of the project you'd like to access from your new domain, update the environment config to look for your new virtual host and to read the relevant cert:

    environment:
        UPS_DOCK_NAME: BSO
        VIRTUAL_HOST: bso.ups.dock,local.bso.org
        CERT_NAME: ups.dock
        HTTPS_METHOD: noredirect
  5. Restart your docker containers.

  6. Confirm that you can access the site at your new domain.

Questions

  • Is there a more portable way to do this without the overhead of ups.dock?
  • How can we extract the DNS records from the alternate_names section of the openssl.conf config so that its not in this project's source control?

@braican braican requested a review from mgburns September 7, 2022 23:55
@braican braican self-assigned this Sep 7, 2022
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