From 4a860dfb7adbf182000272d926f43c792f128299 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: troymc Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 17:19:34 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Updated docs to account for default example BIND_HTTP_TO_LOCALHOST=True --- docs/source/clusters-feds/aws-testing-cluster.md | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/source/clusters-feds/aws-testing-cluster.md b/docs/source/clusters-feds/aws-testing-cluster.md index d587483e..61557102 100644 --- a/docs/source/clusters-feds/aws-testing-cluster.md +++ b/docs/source/clusters-feds/aws-testing-cluster.md @@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ SECURITY_GROUP="bigchaindb" USING_EBS=True EBS_VOLUME_SIZE=30 EBS_OPTIMIZED=False -BIND_HTTP_TO_LOCALHOST=False +BIND_HTTP_TO_LOCALHOST=True ``` Make a copy of that file and call it whatever you like (e.g. `cp example_deploy_conf.py my_deploy_conf.py`). You can leave most of the settings at their default values, but you must change the value of `SSH_KEY_NAME` to the name of your private SSH key. You can do that with a text editor. Set `SSH_KEY_NAME` to the name you used for `` when you generated an RSA key pair for SSH (in basic AWS setup). @@ -179,7 +179,11 @@ bigchaindb --help bigchaindb show-config ``` -You can also check out the RethinkDB web interface at port 8080 on any of the instances; just go to your web browser and visit a web address like `http://ec2-52-29-197-211.eu-central-1.compute.amazonaws.com:8080/`. +You can also check out the RethinkDB web interface. The way to do that depends on how `BIND_HTTP_TO_LOCALHOST` was set in your AWS deployment configuration file: + +* If it was set to `False`, then just go to your web browser and visit a web address like `http://ec2-52-29-197-211.eu-central-1.compute.amazonaws.com:8080/`. (Replace `ec2-...aws.com` with the hostname of one of your instances.) +* If it was set to `True` (the default in the example config file), then follow the instructions in the "Via a SOCKS proxy" section of [the "Secure your cluster" page of the RethinkDB documentation](https://www.rethinkdb.com/docs/security/). + ## Server Monitoring with New Relic