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Changed the port checker to only check localhost and make cloud9 launcher only launch to local host. The reason for this chnage is to imporove security. This allowes you to run nginx with proxy_pass allowing you to password protect c9 as well as run it with https. This is an issue because once you launch c9 from c9hub the c9 instance is open to the world on port 300X with no auth, password, or https. Yes this fix causes you to have to login again but it is much better than leaving it open to the world. I also removed livereloader from the page footer fixing 404 errors.
Updated walkthough for https using letsencrypot and nginx with password auth to the c9 IDE. Aslo added sample nginx confix file
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@zpriddy Hey, nice idea. Are you able to implement a way of making this optional, maybe through the config files? |
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It should be simple enough to do.. Im not really a js coder but it is something that I can look into. |
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So.. In thinking about this.. I think it would be good to have https on all connections... The only concern that I have is that c9 is using ports 3000-5000 right? This would mean that we would need 2000 ports on nginx config - that might be overwhelming.. Is there any chance that we can limit it to 100 ports? and then start recycling those ports? I was trying to do that but failed to do so. I saw in the history that @harjot1singh fixed a bug to allow all those ports.. Is there any good reason why we cant un do that? Any downside to that? |
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@zpriddy Sorry for coming back to it now. I'm not sure what you mean, cloud9hub originally used those 2000 ports, before I changed anything. The range can easily be changed though. |
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I added a layer of HTTP using letsencrypt and nginx. It now requires basic auth when accessing the c9 IDE. I did not like how everything was open to the internet without even https with c9 - more so with no password if the IDE was running considering it has access to a shell. There is more that can be done - maybe using oauth2_proxy in the future. This is just a quick security improvement. @harjot1singh @AVGP Feel free to contact me if you have any questions about these changes or would like to start working together - me@zpriddy.com