[Paraview] ParaViewWeb on remote machine w/ port forwarding

[Sebastien Jourdain]

Hi Ken,

One thing to be aware is that Apache 2.4.6 has a bug in the rewrite module
for web socket. Hence the need to have 2.4.7+.

Seb



On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Scott Wittenburg <
scott.wittenburg at kitware.com> wrote:

> Hi Ken,
>
>    Yes, ParaViewWeb supports either option, though option 1 seems better
> in your case.  Additionally, unless you have your own job management
> software running on the rendering computer, you may want to look at using
> the Python launcher we provide.  See this document:
>
>
> http://www.paraview.org/ParaView3/Doc/Nightly/www/js-doc/index.html#!/guide/python_launcher
>
>    Using the Python launcher along with an Apache web server provides you
> with seemingly infinite ways to set your system up, so we have provided
> another guide which describes some of the common configurations.  That
> document is located here:
>
>
> http://www.paraview.org/ParaView3/Doc/Nightly/www/js-doc/index.html#!/guide/launching_examples
>
>    The section titled "Second Example: Two machines" shows a diagram of
> the use case I think you'll want, and it has an example configuration file
> for the Python launcher as well as Apache virtual host configuration
> example.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Scott
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 1:46 PM, Ken Mankoff <mankoff at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Scott,
>>
>> IT says 2.4.6, but that they have all the modules listed in your
>> requirements.
>>
>> We're considering two approaches since their webserver VMs also don't
>> have good graphics virtualization: 1) Some ParaView software running on the
>> the web VM that has another computer doing the rendering for it. This seems
>> to be an officially supported method of running PVW, but I can't quite
>> figure out how to set this up from the docs, and 2) No PV/Kitware software
>> on the web VM. Just pass everything (via Apache) to another computer. Not
>> sure which would be easier for IT, better for the end user, etc.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>   -k.
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Scott Wittenburg <
>> scott.wittenburg at kitware.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The reason I ask is that Apache 2.4.7 is the oldest version in which all
>>> the required modules are present and work correctly.  You can see the list
>>> of needed modules here:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.paraview.org/ParaView3/Doc/Nightly/www/js-doc/index.html#!/guide/ubuntu_14_04-section-5
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Scott
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 1:04 PM, Scott Wittenburg <
>>> scott.wittenburg at kitware.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Ken,
>>>>
>>>>    Before doing much debugging, can you check and report back here what
>>>> version of Apache you're running on the web-facing servers?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Scott
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 12:53 PM, Ken Mankoff <mankoff at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm trying to get ParaViewWeb (PVW) running. I've read the
>>>>> documentation and have the QuickStart section working, but am still having
>>>>> trouble with a more complicated setup.
>>>>>
>>>>> My IT support team has the web-facing servers as VMs running a slighly
>>>>> outdated CentOS. I don't think this is a good setup for PVW.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is it possible to tell apache to just forward all requests to a remote
>>>>> computer? My computer inside the web firewall does run PVW successfully,
>>>>> and I'd like to access that rendering hardware and storage space. Is this a
>>>>> PVW config option? Or just an apache option? Or a paraview server option?
>>>>> Can someone advise what ports to forward?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>>   -k.
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