Rob,

Thanks for everything.   I made a tiny doc change just now to address
the first issue you had:

https://github.com/sagemathinc/smc/commit/ecfa2b66b8b602ff7fd98c3a686a03e985d06880


On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 10:36 AM, Robert Lowe <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ahahaha!  I figured it out!
>
> My server's hostname is read by compute and that is the hostname it uses.
> However, when the localhub runs, it binds to the first ip address on my
> server, but the hostname resolved to 127.0.0.1.  So I had to change
> /etc/hosts so that the hostname (mccs) resolved to that domain and then
> bingo I have the ability to pull raw files from within running projects.
> The reason why it worked with public folders when I was logged out is that
> in those instances the traffic passes from compute to hub, whereas with a
> running project it goes from localhub to hub.
>
> The upshot of all this is, I have now read like 90% of the hub source code
> and I feel a lot more confident in administering the system now.  Perhaps if
> time permits I may contribute some more detailed documentation to the
> project.  The code itself is reasonably well organized, but without details
> of its design it can be a bit like unraveling a cable knit sweater when it
> comes to diagnosing issues.  (Such is the reality of all distributed
> applications!)
>
> Now I just have to to get jupyter going and then I can spend the weekend
> writing custom code!
>
>
> On Friday, August 19, 2016 at 1:09:47 PM UTC-4, Robert Lowe wrote:
>>
>> Another part of the puzzle has emerged.  I can get access to raw files
>> through the proxy if they are in a publicly shared folder.  However, if I'm
>> doing a raw pull within a project in a non-public folder I get a bad
>> gateway.
>>
>> This tells me something is going on inside smc, probably with an
>> authentication token of some kind.  I noticed in proxy.coffee that it looks
>> like that is how it determines if it serves a file or not.  The section in
>> question reads:
>>
>>                 if not misc.path_is_in_public_paths(path, public_paths)
>>                     # The requested path is not public, so nothing to do.
>>                     cb()
>>                 else
>>                     # The requested path *is* public, so we get the file
>>                     # from one (of the potentially many) compute servers
>>                     # that has the file -- (right now this is implemented
>>                     # via sending/receiving JSON messages and using base64
>>                     # encoding, but that could change).
>>                     ....
>>
>> It's non-obvious whether the earlier code in proxy.coffee can handle an
>> authenticated user's files.  I assume it can, as this capability exists in
>> the live cloud.sagemath.org server.  Alternatively, perhaps the master
>> branch code is not actually the code currently running on SMC.  When I try
>> manually talking to the proxy, and I send the same header sent by my web
>> browser, I get a blank response.  The proxy doesn't even send a header back,
>> which tells me that we are likely visiting this segment of the code even
>> while authenticated.
>>
>> I'm also beginning to think I'm alone in this, and once I do figure it out
>> I will join an elite group of individuals who have managed to install SMC.
>>
>>
>> On Friday, August 19, 2016 at 9:52:41 AM UTC-4, Robert Lowe wrote:
>>>
>>> I am making progress!  I have discovered the secret handshake which
>>> starts the hub on a single server, and how to run the compute daemon.  I'm
>>> basically just running them as they are in the dev/single directory.
>>>
>>> So project starts, I can use the terminal, and I can create and edit
>>> files.  Now, though, I can't view latex previews.  It builds the latex
>>> documents just fine, but preview does not work.  Looking under the hood a
>>> bit, I see that the rendered png files cannot download over the /raw links.
>>> I did a little more checking and discovered that raw download does not work
>>> for any file, regardless of where it is!  The error I get when I go to one
>>> of these raw links is:
>>>
>>> 502 Bad Gateway
>>>
>>> I looked in the nginx and haproxy logs and saw no errors.  The hub and
>>> compute similarly report what looks like should be successful.  Has anyone
>>> got any ideas where I should look?
>>>
>>> On Thursday, August 18, 2016 at 8:00:07 PM UTC-4, Robert Lowe wrote:
>>>>
>>>> What I'm really after is running my own SMC installation for my
>>>> students.  The commercial servers are far too bogged down, even with paid
>>>> tiers.  Ultimately, I will be running a customized version which will only
>>>> allow maryvillecollege.edu addresses to sign up, and have a few other
>>>> changes that I have in mind.
>>>>
>>>> I can run the laptop one just fine, I want to set up a real installation
>>>> though.
>>>>
>>>> On Thursday, August 18, 2016 at 7:55:38 PM UTC-4, Harald Schilly wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi, if you want to do dev work, then you should run it via the
>>>>> instructions in src/dev/laptop
>>>>>
>>>>> The projects are all isolated, such that you do not get any
>>>>> information like processes and stuff for who on the compute nodes.
>>>>> There is nothing special going on, except for cgroups. The real
>>>>> problem might be, that you have to do additional configuration in the
>>>>> database, but I'm not sure what you really did.
>>>>>
>>>>> One day in the future, there will be configurations for kubernetes.
>>>>> You can check that progress in the k8s subdirectory.
>>>>>
>>>>> -- harald
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