[Webcollab-users] Accessing WebCollab with different URLs

[Patrick M. <pat...@ci...>]

Newb question:

I recently installed webcollab (v1.70) on a machine behind a firewall. 
The BASE_URL is "http://inside-name/webcollab/", which gives me easy 
access from all the local computers.

I want to access it from home through the firewall and I have been using 
ssh tunneling. So from home it is something like 
"http://localhost:1234/webcollab/", which doesn't work because the 
redirects contain the BASE_URL, which has no meaning outside of the office.

To be specific, I set up ssh
$ ssh -L 1234:localhost:80 me@firewall-ip:forwarded-ssh-port
and browse to
http://localhost:1234/webcollab/
I get the login screen, but it fails after that.

I have a work-around, where I add "inside-name" to my hosts file as an 
alias for 127.0.0.1, and set up my ssh tunnel to use local port 80. It 
works, but to use port 80 requires root privileges on Linux, and if I am 
running a web server on my local machine, I have to shut it down.

This works:
In hosts file:
127.0.0.1  localhost  inside-name
$ ssh -L 80:localhost:80 my@firewall-ip:forwarded-ssh-port
and browse to
http://localhost/webcollab/
or
http://inside-name/webcollab/

Does anyone know a better way to do this?

Thanks,
Patrick McCabe