It is relatively easy to have a secure JHS server serving remote clients. The trick is to piggyback JHS on a secure SSH tunnel. JHS communication is through the tunnel and has the same encryption protection as the SHH connection. If SHH security is good enough for you, there is no reason to not use JHS from a remote client.
An SHH tunnel connects a local port on the client to a local port on the server and uses its encryption/decryption on the connection. This allows a browser on the client to connect to a local client port and have a secure connection to a local port on the server. Following are basic steps: 1. set up server machine with SHH server 2. set up client machine with SHH client 3. configure SHH client and verify you can access the server 4. add tunnel config to SSH client (e.g., 65001 <--> 127.0.0.1:65001) 5. use SHH to connect client to server 6. from client SSH session start JHS on server with command: ~/j64-701/bin/jhs & 7. from client browser session browse to localhost:65001 (passed through tunnel to 65001 on server) 8. you have secure JHS services on client from server If you want to use port 65001 on your client for local JHS use, then you'll want to configure the JHS server on your server to use another port and configure the SHH tunnel to make that connection (e.g., 65003 <-> 127.0.0.1:65003) If you already have SHH access from your client to your server you have already done all the hard parts. Tunnel config is done a bit differently on different SHH clients. On windows putty do the following: 1. load saved session that connects to your server 2. in the Category tree navigate to Connection>SSH>Tunnels 3. type 65001 in Source port 4. type 127.0.0.1:65001 (server local port) in Destination 5. click Add 6. navigate to Session 7. click Save (to save config changes) I had always planned to add https support to JHS but this is a non-trivial, I now the SHH tunnel works so well that perhaps there is no need for JHS https support. This really is the way to use a cloud machine! I think this is a significant capability and welcome your feedback. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
