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GridSite Apache module: mod_gridsite
mod_gridsite is an Apache 2.0 module which enforces access control via Grid
Access Control Lists, and X.509, GSI or VOMS credentials. mod_gridsite also
gives Apache built-in support for the HTTP PUT and DELETE methods, and
formatting of HTML pages with standard headers and footers.
Since mod_gridsite access
control within Apache itself, Grid authorization and
the associated verified credentials are available to all technologies
supported by Apache, including static file serving, SSI, CGI, PHP, mod_perl
and Java servlets via a connector to Tomcat.
Operation of mod_gridsite can be configured using runtime directives
in Apache's standard httpd.conf configuration file. The module must first be
loaded with a LoadModule directive:
LoadModule gridsite_module /PATH/TO/MODULES/mod_gridsite.so
The module's behaviour is then controlled by GridSite... directives within
Apache <Directory ...> sections, allowing different directories to use
GridSite features in different ways.
GridSite directives
- GridSiteIndexes on|off
- Determines whether GridSite generates HTML directory listings. These
have some advantages over standard Apache directory listings (eg the
displayed filenames are never truncated) and will include standard
headers and footers if GridSiteHtmlFormat is on.
(Default: GridSiteIndexes off)
- GridSiteIndexHeader file
- If the named file is found in the directory being listed, the file
is included verbatim at the top of the listing and excluded from
the file-by-file listing. The file can either be HTML or plain text (in
which case browsers will be treat it as one HTML paragraph.)
(Default: none)
- GridSiteHtmlFormat on|off
- Determines where HTML pages receive additional formatting before being
sent to the client. This includes the "Last modified",
"View page history", "Switch to HTTP(S)",
"Print View" and "Built with GridSite" footer
elements. If header and footer files are found, they will be used too.
(Default: GridSiteHtmlFormat off)
- GridSiteHeadFile file
GridSiteFootFile file
- Set the filenames to be searched for as standard headers and footers
for HTML pages. For each HTML page, the directory of that page is tried
first, and then parent directories in ascending order until a header /
footer file is found. Header files are inserted in place of HTML
<body[ ...]> tags; footer files in place of </body>. (These
standard files should each include the appropriate body tag as a
replacement.)
(Defaults: GridSiteHeadFile gridsitehead.txt,
GridSiteFootFile gridsitefoot.txt)
- GridSiteAuth on|off
- Enables GridSite access control features, using
GACL files. The files are named .gacl and are
per-directory. The current directory is tried and then parent
directories in ascending order until a .gacl file is found.
(Default: GridSiteAuth off)
- GridSiteAdminList uri
- All members of the DN List with name "uri" receive the full set
of permissions, irrespective of per-directory .gacl files. People in
this group have full control over the whole site.
(Default: none)
- GridSiteGSIProxyLimit limit
- When using GSI Proxy credentials,
proxies with delegation depth greater than "limit" will
be ignored by mod_gridsite authorization decisions. A limit of zero
implies only full X.509
certificates (and no proxies) will be accepted. A limit of 1 implies
that only the initial proxy, usually created on the user's own machine,
is acceptable. Higher levels lead to proxies on remote machines, eg
used by running jobs, being accepted.
(Default: GridSiteGSIProxyLimit 1)
- GridSiteMethods [GET] [PUT] [DELETE]
- Specifies which HTTP methods are supported by GridSite. GET (and HEAD)
are always supported. PUT and DELETE support is turned on by this
directive, subject to a positive statement that write permission is
allowed for the directory in question, by a GACL file.
(Default: GridSite GET)
- GridSiteDNlists directory1[:directory2[:directory3]...]
- Sets up the DN List path used by GACL for
evaluating <dn-list> credentials. If this directive is not used,
then GACL will use the GRST_DN_LISTS variable from Apache's own
environment. If that is not set either, then /etc/grid-security/dn-lists
is searched.
(Default: none)
- GridSiteDNlistsURI uri
- If GridSiteDNlistsURI is used, then the URI given appears to be
populated with all the DN lists on the current DN lists path which
match the current server. That is, for server https://example.org/
with DN lists URI /dn-lists/, all DN lists with URLs starting
https://example.org/dn-lists/ will appear to be present in /dn-lists/,
irrespective of where in the path they are stored.
(Default: none)
- GridSiteAdminURI uri
- GridSiteAdminURI gives the absolute URI on the server of the GridSite
Admin CGI program, which is used for file management, HTML and GACL
editing. This should be used in conjunction with the standard Apache
directive ScriptAlias to map that URI to the real-gridsite-admin.cgi
executable. For example:
ScriptAlias /real-gridsite-admin.cgi
/PATH/TO/real-gridsite-admin.cgi
This URI is always reached by an internal redirection from the value
set by GridSiteAdminFile, and is never visible to users.
(Default: none)
- GridSiteAdminFile cgifilename
- If GridSiteAdminURI is set, then the cgifilename of GridSiteAdminFile
appears to be present in all directories when explicitly
requested (it does not appear in directory listings.) Requests for these
ghost CGI URIs are internally redirected to the value set by
GridSiteAdminURI.
(Default: GridSiteAdminFile gridsite-admin.cgi)
- GridSiteEnvs on|off
- This makes mod_gridsite export several variables into the environment
of CGI programs and other dynamic content systems. The variable names
are listed below. For gridsite-admin.cgi mechanism to work, this switch
must be left in its default state of on.
(Default: GridSiteEnvs on)
- GridSiteEditable [ext1 [ext2 [ext3] ...]]]
- A space-separated list of file extensions which can safely be edited
by the GridSite Text/HTML editor. The extensions are given without the
initial dot.
(Default: GridSiteEditable txt shtml html htm css js php jsp)
- GridSiteHelpURI uri
- If set, gives the URI to use for "Website Help" links in HTML
page footers.
(Default: none)
- GridSiteLink on|off
- Turns off the link in the HTML page footers which gives credit to
GridSite.
(Default: GridSiteLink on)
- GridSiteUnzip path
- If "path" is set by this directive, then real-gridsite-admin.cgi
will offer to list the contents of .zip archives on the server.
Users with write access are able to unpack the contents into the same
directory as the .zip file. The value of "path" must point
to the location of the
unzip binary.
(Default: none)
Environment variables
The following variables are present in the environment of CGI programs and
other dynamic content systems if the GridSiteEnvs on directive is
in effect.
- GRST_PERM
- Numerical value of the permission bit-map obtained by comparing the
user with the GACL in force. (These should be tested using the
GRSTgaclPermHasXXXX functions from GACL.)
- GRST_ADMIN_LIST
- URI of the DN List, listing people with full admin and write access
to the whole site.
- GRST_GSIPROXY_LIMIT
- Maximum valid delegation level for GSI Proxies.
- GRST_DIR_PATH
- Absolute path in the local filesystem to the directory holding the
file being requested.
- GRST_HELP_URI
- URI of website help pages set by GridSiteHelpURI directive.
- GRST_ADMIN_FILE
- Filename of per-directory ghost gridsite-admin.cgi program. (This is
used by real-gridsite-admin.cgi to construct links in its pages.)
- GRST_EDITABLE
- Space-separated list of extensions which can safely be edited with a
Text/HTML editor.
- GRST_HEAD_FILE and GRST_FOOT_FILE
- Filenames of standard header and footer files.
- GRST_DN_LISTS
- DN lists search path.
- GRST_DN_LISTS_URI
- Directory of virtual URIs used to publish this site's DN Lists.
- GRST_UNZIP
- Full path to the unzip binary, used to list and unpack .zip files.
- GRST_NO_LINK
- If set, do not include credit links to GridSite in page footers.
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