Everything but ood server's reverse proxying working for remote desktop

[ekeever1 (Erik Keever)]

I just checked and it is the host name that is the problem.

I opened the noVNC advanced settings and edited the host target from ‘axis1’ to ‘axis1.stor’ and it worked.

However I have

• entered set_host (why not use hostname -f?), rerun the configuration generator and restarted httpd
• put .stor first on the /etc/resolv.conf domain search list and restarted httpd
• put “172.17.10.1 axis1.stor” into /etc/hosts and restarted httpd
  And none of them have any effect, the host is flat ‘axis1’ which does not work.

Ultimately following

How does batch_connect set_host affect app/VNC behavior?

In /etc/ood/config/apps/bc_desktop/submit/my_submit.yml.erb for OOD1, this line was commented out: set_host: "host=$(hostname)" Using the same file in OOD2, the desktop app didn’t run, with a novnc error, until the above line was restored to the file. Also (in OOD2 only), on the page to launch the app, the Host link (for shell) shows the short name of the compute node and doesn’t work without the set_host line, but with the set_host line shows the FQDN and works. (Outside of OOD, ssh from th…

I directly edited set_host into
/var/www/ood/apps/sys/bc_desktop/submit.yml.erb
and restarted and it works: I am able to launch a remote session and get a gnome desktop appear in my browser. Horray! There’s some other things that need to be worked out but it looks like it’s alive.