Content for Initial Auth Page

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Hello,
So, we have our site up in beta, and it is working well. I just want to make a couple of tweaks. One in particular, when someone visits our site they get a blank page with a request for user and password. Where would I go about adding content for that initial access? I’m not sure if I broke something, or am not finding existing info about it in documentation. Either way, I’d appreciate a point in the right direction!
Thanks!
Aragorn
Wayne State University

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Depending on what auth method you chose, the answers may (or may not) vary. I have settings in

/etc/ood/config/apps/dashboard/env

that include

OOD_DASHBOARD_HEADER_IMG_LOGO=/public/header.png

which displays /var/www/ood/public/header.png. That file has a branding image.

I also have

OOD_ANNOUNCEMENT_PATH="/etc/ood/config/announcement.yml"

which allows me to put messages in yaml format to display on the landing page, e.g., on my dev system

type: warning

msg: |

This is OnDemand Dev - a development and test server; nothing is safe here.

This is covered (mostly) in the Branding Section of the docs as I remember it. Also check out

/var/www/ood/apps/sys/dashboard/config/examples/…

as you may get some more ideas from the various examples there.

Cheers,

Ric

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As for the initial page prior to login, if you are referring to Basic Auth, yes its blank until you authenticate. One proposal was https://github.com/OSC/ondemand/issues/207. The idea is you take these steps:

  1. Add a static start page to /var/www/ood/public/start.html which is your unauthenticated home page. There is a link on it called “Login” that links to /pun/sys/dashboard i.e. <a href="/pun/sys/dashboard">Login</a>
  2. Set root_uri: '/public/start.html' in /etc/ood/config/ood_portal.yml
  3. Run sudo /opt/ood/ood-portal-generator/sbin/update_ood_portal to update Apache config
  4. Run sudo systemctl restart httpd24-httpd to restart Apache

Then if you go to the root of the OnDemand instance / you are presented with the login page. You click login, and (at least in Firefox) and the Basic Auth dialog appears over the static login page:

login_basic_auth
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Of course this doesn’t work as well normal login pages. If you press cancel, you end up at /pun/sys/dashboard with an error:

unauthorized
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And any other URL that requires authentication, like going directly to /pun/sys/dashboard, will show a blank screen till you login. I’m unaware of another approach to have the desired effect using Apache, without using another authentication module.

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Thanks! I’ll give this a go! Appreciate the quick response! :slight_smile:

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Yep, did manage to update the dashboard. It’s the page before authenticating that I was curious about. efranz responded with the info I needed. Thanks for keeping an eye on the bard though!!!
Aragorn.

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Just circling back to this in case someone sees it in the future - while you can have a public page for authentication - apache’s Basic Authentication is highly discouraged.