Nuo, Thomas Baum has been working on an authentication extension for Neo4j Server, see https://github.com/neo4j/authentication-extension. He could help you set it up and test it - it's used in hosting scenarios and should do what you want in terms of limiting access to certain URIs if that is what you want?
Cheers, /peter neubauer GTalk: neubauer.peter Skype peter.neubauer Phone +46 704 106975 LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/neubauer Twitter http://twitter.com/peterneubauer http://www.neo4j.org - Your high performance graph database. http://startupbootcamp.org/ - Öresund - Innovation happens HERE. http://www.thoughtmade.com - Scandinavia's coolest Bring-a-Thing party. On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Nuo Yan <[email protected]> wrote: > For my scenario, I currently only use the LB for request authentication, so > that not everyone on the network can access the neo4j server. In my use > case, I think making the base uri configurable (including the protocol, e.g. > https://foobar.com/) is enough. > > There are a couple other approaches that may also solve my problem. For > example, having a configurable option to make the REST APIs return only > relative paths in the result. Or, if neo4j could have a built-in request > authentication mechanism for the REST interface, I may be able to get rid of > the lb completely. > > > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 7:04 AM, Peter Neubauer < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Nuo, >> right now the server is discovering its own IP upon startup. However, >> it sounds reasonable to return configurable base URL. I am just >> wondering if that really is enough to support a LB scenario? Do you >> need more stuff there? >> >> Cheers, >> >> /peter neubauer >> >> GTalk: neubauer.peter >> Skype peter.neubauer >> Phone +46 704 106975 >> LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/neubauer >> Twitter http://twitter.com/peterneubauer >> >> http://www.neo4j.org - Your high performance graph database. >> http://startupbootcamp.org/ - Öresund - Innovation happens HERE. >> http://www.thoughtmade.com - Scandinavia's coolest Bring-a-Thing party. >> >> >> >> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Nuo Yan <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I access my neo4j server through the REST API. For security purpose, I >> put >> > the neo4j server behind a nginx lb. I'm wondering if there is config >> entry >> > somewhere that I can set the neo4j server to return a customized base uri >> > that I can set to my LB's uri. >> > >> > For example, currently creating a node by POSTing to the lb (say >> > https://10.0.0.1/db/data) returns >> > >> > { >> > "outgoing_relationships" : " >> > http://neo4j/db/data/node/160/relationships/out";, >> > "data" : { >> > }, >> > "traverse" : "http://neo4j/db/data/node/160/traverse/{returnType}";, >> > "all_typed_relationships" : " >> > http://neo4j/db/data/node/160/relationships/all/{-list|&|types}", >> > "property" : "http://neo4j/db/data/node/160/properties/{key}";, >> > "self" : "http://neo4j/db/data/node/160";, >> > "properties" : "http://neo4j/db/data/node/160/properties";, >> > "outgoing_typed_relationships" : " >> > http://neo4j/db/data/node/160/relationships/out/{-list|&|types}", >> > "incoming_relationships" : " >> http://neo4j/db/data/node/160/relationships/in >> > ", >> > "extensions" : { >> > }, >> > "create_relationship" : "http://neo4j/db/data/node/160/relationships";, >> > "paged_traverse" : " >> > >> http://neo4j/db/data/node/160/paged/traverse/{returnType}{?pageSize,leaseTime} >> > ", >> > "all_relationships" : "http://neo4j/db/data/node/160/relationships/all >> ", >> > "incoming_typed_relationships" : " >> > http://neo4j/db/data/node/160/relationships/in/{-list|&|types}" >> > >> > >> > Is there a config on the neo4j server that I can set to make it either >> > return the lb URI "https://10.0.0.1"; as the base uri or return relative >> path >> > in the result? >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Neo4j mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> Neo4j mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user >> > _______________________________________________ > Neo4j mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user > _______________________________________________ Neo4j mailing list [email protected] https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
