[racket] Too Many Redirects (Apache)

I think you can use ffi-lib with #f because it is already attached.

Jay

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 11:58 AM, John Clements
<clements at brinckerhoff.org> wrote:
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> On Sep 16, 2011, at 10:51 AM, Jay McCarthy wrote:
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>> I've done it before, it's easy and works, but I can't seem to find the code...
>
> Can you recall of the top of your head whether you can use ffi-lib on libc.dylib? If so, no C code would be required at all.
>
> John
>
>>
>> Jay
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 11:31 AM, John Clements
>> <clements at brinckerhoff.org> wrote:
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>>> On Sep 16, 2011, at 6:59 AM, Jeremy Kun wrote:
>>>
>>>> Oops, meant to reply-all
>>>>
>>>> Jeremy
>>>
>>> One other relevant thought; how hard would it be to throw out Apache and just use setuid to demote racket's privileges after starting? I don't see a built-in binding for setuid--presumably because it's completely platform-specific--but it should be less than 30 lines of code, including the C and the racket. Jay, have you done this? (Maybe this code is just sitting around somewhere?)
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Jeremy Kun <kun.jeremy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> The redirects are hitting port 8080, via the rules verbatim from that FAQ. Literally, I have the following in my httpd.conf:
>>>>
>>>> RewriteEngine on
>>>> RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://localhost:8080/$1 [P,NE]
>>>>
>>>> So I'm hitting my server at http://racket01.csc.calpoly.edu, and I get that redirect loop.
>>>>
>>>> I can't send a request directly to 8080 from outside because my server admin has blocked those ports, hence my desire to do this forwarding. I also can't enable permissions for racket to use <1024 ports via setcap, since the kernel I'm using is not recent enough.
>>>>
>>>> And in case this will help, these are my serve/servlet options:
>>>>
>>>> (serve/servlet
>>>>  start
>>>>  #:launch-browser? #f
>>>>  #:quit? #f
>>>>  #:listen-ip #f
>>>>  #:servlet-path "/"
>>>>  #:port 8080
>>>>  #:log-file (build-path "/home/jkun/racket/log.txt")
>>>>  #:extra-files-paths (list (build-path "/home/jkun/racket")))
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas?
>>>>
>>>> Jeremy
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 6:29 AM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I think I've seen that before and I thought it meant the redirect was
>>>> set up wrong, but it doesn't seem like you have done that.
>>>>
>>>> What URL are the GETs to? What happens when you go to it directly?
>>>>
>>>> Jay
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Jeremy Kun <kun.jeremy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> I'm trying to set up Apache to redirect to the Racket web server on port
>>>>> 8080. Originally after modifying my http configuration file to include the
>>>>> correct RewriteEngine and RewriteRule lines from this page, I got the
>>>>> following error message:
>>>>> [Thu Sep 15 21:43:19 2011] [error] (13)Permission denied: proxy: HTTP:
>>>>> attempt to connect to 127.0.0.1:8080 (*) failed
>>>>> A quick google search gives that the problem might be in the SELinux
>>>>> security setting: Allow HTTPD scripts and modules to connect to the
>>>>> network, which I suppose is turned off. So I ran
>>>>> sudo /usr/sbin/setsebool httpd_can_network_connect 1
>>>>> Now it appears to redirect (the racket web server logs show GET requests
>>>>> from 127.0.0.1), but now it appears to be stuck in an infinite redirect
>>>>> loop, resulting in the following Apache error message:
>>>>> [Thu Sep 15 21:57:49 2011] [error] (111)Connection refused: proxy: HTTP:
>>>>> attempt to connect to 127.0.0.1:8080 (*) failed
>>>>> And an error page with Error 310 (net::ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS)
>>>>> Has anyone else encountered this problem? I can't figure out where the
>>>>> redirection is breaking down. There aren't any error messages in the racket
>>>>> error logs, just an unnaturally large number of GET requests from 127.0.0.1.
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Jeremy
>>>>>
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http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay

"The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93