Having used Apache HTTPD for a good portion of my professional career, and being responsible for explaining how OpenShift works, I decided to try and build an Apache HTTPD container from scratch. For follow on work, I want to see the environment, so the container is essentially wrapping a mod_wsgi APP that dumps the environment. I took some trial and error to get it to run. Here is the end result:
I’m building using a Docker file.
FROM centos:latest MAINTAINER Adam Young RUN yum -y install httpd mod_wsgi RUN sed -i.bak 's/Listen 80/Listen 8080/' /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf RUN sed -i.bak 's/ CustomLog/# CustomLog/' /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf COPY index.html /var/www/html/ COPY envvars.py /var/www/cgi-bin/envvars.wsgi RUN chmod a+rx /var/www/cgi-bin/envvars.wsgi COPY krbocp.conf /etc/httpd/conf.d/ CMD /usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND EXPOSE 8080 |
While I had wanted to keep all of the HTTPD configuration in an external file, it turns out I needed to turn a couple things off in the main file first. Hence the two sed lines. The first one:
sed -i.bak 's/Listen 80/Listen 8080/' /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf |
Changes the port on which the container instance listens from 80 to 8080. Since my end state is going to be to run this in OpenShift, and I want OpenShift to provide TLS, port 8080 cleartext is OK for now.
The second sed line:
sed -i.bak 's/ CustomLog/# CustomLog/' /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf |
Turns off the default logging for the access_log file. I need to override tis later.
This is my simplistic mod_wsgi conf file:
PidFile /tmp/apache.pid
ErrorLog /dev/stderr
TransferLog /dev/stdout
<VirtualHost *>
DocumentRoot /var/www/html
WSGIScriptAlias /envvars /var/www/cgi-bin/envvars.wsgi
<Directory /var/www/cgi-bin>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost> |
I got to this via trial and error. The logging section was based on a hint from https://twitter.com/nazgullien. Thank You Very Much.
Here is the WSGI code itself.
from os import environ def application(environ, start_response): status = '200 OK' output = b'<html><head><title>Environemnt Variables</title></head><body><dl>' keys = environ.keys() for key in keys: line = '<dt>%s</dt><dd> %s</dd>\n' % (key, repr(environ[key])) output += line.encode('utf-8') output += b'</dl></body></html>' response_headers = [('Content-type', 'text/html'), ('Content-Length', str(len(output)))] start_response(status, response_headers) return [output] |
The complete code repository is here. Last tested commit is 33f4bcfae23aba4b60cb485e52b11a07caa50a8f but this repo is going to keep moving, so don’t be surprised if it looks nothing like I describe above by the time you look.