[rudder-dev] HTTPS support in Rudder < 2.8

[Francois]

On 03/11/2013 17:37, Jonathan Clarke wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> HTTPS support now works "out of the box" in Rudder 2.8 (see
> http://www.rudder-project.org/foswiki/bin/view/System/Documentation:ChangeLog28#System_integration),
> but I have a couple of questions about documentation for this features.
>
> 1) The current user manual in 2.8 version doesn't seem to mention this
> at all. I assume it would be useful to at least explain how the
> certificate is generated (ie, self-signed, will cause certificate
> trust errors), and how to use your own certificate (in such a way that
> if you edit the path in the config file it doesn't get wiped :) ).
>
> Any opinions on this? Either way, a Pull Request would be appreciated :)

I'm for your documentation proposition, so that new users know how to
adapt the process to feet their installation, and old users are not
suprised by the evolution.

>
> 2) Should we add some documentation on how to set this up for pre-2.8
> installs? Or should we not bother and just say "If you need HTTPS,
> upgrade to 2.8"? I'm open to any opinions, please fire away :) And
> again, a pull request would make this an easy choice ;)

Well, as long as 2.8 is not tagged "stable", that means that we don't
have any documented way to have HTTPS on a stable Rudder, what is so-so,
especially if we do have to process... So I would go for at least
documenting it for the current Rudder stable and more recent version
(well, 2.6 and 2.7 :)

>
> Thanks for your opinions!
> Jonathan

That's nothing, opinions are cheap and I can share a lot of them ;)

-- 
Francois