who wants some nginx?

[Alexander Amelkin]

11.04.2018 16:21, Andrew Geissler wrote:
> I picked up some commits from Chris that enabled Nginx in OpenBMC.  We
> want  it for a few reasons:
>
> - It provides an easy mechanism to redirect http to https (i.e. user
> just types <bmc ip> and get redirected to https which then auto loads
> the GUI
> - It gives us flexibility to serve multiple back end servers off the
> https port (or any port)
> - It's much faster then our current front end server
> - Many other cool feature we may use some day
>
> https://gerrit.openbmc-project.xyz/#/c/6879/
>
> The question is do we enable for all openbmc systems or just ours?
> Any votes?  Feel free to comment the review with your thoughts.
>
> It looks like it takes up about an additional ~250KB of flash space.
> There is no impact to our existing REST api path with this change.
>
Automatic redirect from http to https would be great, and I'm all for nginx.
All we need from http is to keep it serving /snmp path to let an
unauthenticated user download SNMP MIBs.
As far as I understand, that can be done with nginx, isn't it?

Alexander.