[developers] FFTB from remote machine

[Woodley Packard]

Hi Francis,

It looks like all your problems are solved :-).  Only listening on localhost is supposed to be a security improvement.  I didn’t work particularly hard at making sure the web server is resistant to malicious clients.

Regards, Woodley

> On Jun 10, 2019, at 10:01 PM, Francis Bond <bond at ieee.org> wrote:
> 
> Solved that too!   Calling it without --browser means you get 9080.
> 
>> On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 12:57 PM Francis Bond <bond at ieee.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks, using nginx on our server worked for us!
>> 
>> However, we are getting a random port each time we start fftb, do you
>> know how to get it to
>> always give you 9080?
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 11:53 AM Alexandre Rademaker
>> <arademaker at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Francis,
>>> 
>>> I believe the solution that we implemented to our docker will work for you.
>>> 
>>> https://github.com/own-pt/docker-logon/blob/master/README
>>> 
>>> The nginx server is used to redirect the port. Fftb is listens to only localhost
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>> 
>>> On 11 Jun 2019, at 00:21, Francis Bond <bond at ieee.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> G'day,
>>> 
>>> we would like to get some students to treebank, and they prefer to
>>> work from home, and do not run linux (or MacOS).   I seem to recall it
>>> is not possible to access the treebank remotely (at least on a local
>>> network http://172.21.170.123:43423/private/ does not work for us).
>>> 
>>> Does anyone know of a workaround?   Can we add this as a feature request?
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Francis Bond <http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/fcbond/>
>>> Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies
>>> Nanyang Technological University
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Francis Bond <http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/fcbond/>
>> Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies
>> Nanyang Technological University
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Francis Bond <http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/fcbond/>
> Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies
> Nanyang Technological University