The method depends on which web server are you using. Which one are using?
General guidance can be found in book, chapter 13
http://web2py.com/book/default/chapter/13
On Thursday, September 13, 2012 8:38:45 AM UTC-5, Francisco Barretto wrote:
>
> Hi There!
>
> Deploying web2py on a server gives me some headache about accessing the
> admin page (on server) from a remote machine. First it throwed the message
> "'Admin is disabled because insecure channel'. So I found some posts
> talking about comment the following code
>
>
> if request.env.http_x_forwarded_for or request.is_https:
>
> session.secure()
> elif not request.is_local and not DEMO_MODE:
> raise HTTP(200, T('Admin is disabled because insecure channel'))
>
> Unfortunatelly, commenting, this part of the access.py file is not the
> right way to do it and I know. Besides, it still shows-me this message
> "ATTENTION: Login requires a secure (HTTPS) connection or running on
> localhost". So, it´s not apropriate and doesn´t even solve the problem.
>
> Since I´m using linux as my server OS and it doesn´t have a graphic
> interface I can´t access the admin page through a local browser. My point
> is, how to correctly enable the admin page remote access? Already tryed to
> start with the server IP and 0.0.0.0 using ports 8000, 80 and 443 and still
> nothing. Also tryied to specify the protocol HTTPS on browser but I get
> this error:
>
> SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length.
>
>
> (Error code: ssl_error_rx_record_too_long)
>
> So, can anybody point me the right way?
>
> Thanks!
>
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