Topic: Enable 'e-smith-manager' to the outside world?

[mini]

i need to display the 'e-smith-manager', which is running in my home,
to my future boss.  any ideas?

thank you!

[Charlie Brady]

mini wrote:

> i need to display the 'e-smith-manager', which is running in
> my home, to my future boss.  any ideas?

My first idea is it's almost certainly not a good idea.

If you want to do it safely, install SSH on the e-smith server,
then use port 80 redirection with SSH to allow access to the
web server effectively from the loopback interface on the e-smith server. Do "ssh -L8000:localhost:80 e-smith.domain" from somewhere outside, then point your web browser to "http://where.you.are:8000/e-smith-manager/".

If you want to do it unsafely,  you will need to adjust the
apache configuration on the e-smith server.

Charlie

[Dan Brown]

It seems like setting up SSL would also work, if there were RPMs which were compatible with the version of Apache that ships with e-smith.  Are these available?  I found some on ftp.replay.net which said they were for Apache 1.3.6, but Apache wouldn't start when I installed them.