Mandaye - modular reverse proxy to authenticate¶
Mandaye is a modular rewriting reverse proxy. Its main use is to add external
authentication systems to legacy application, i.e. SSO.
It dispatches HTTP requests to your applications and allow you to transform and
filter the request and the response.
Mandaye allows to couple your authentication provider with incompatible web
applications.
Copying¶
This software copyrighted by Entr'ouvert and is licensed under the GNU AGPL
version 3 for distribution.
Features¶
- Mapping / dispatching
With Mandaye you can define your own mapping files. This allows you to call your own filters
on the right HTTP requests. See the config part for more details. - Filters
You can define your own filters with Mandaye. This filter have access to the WSGI environment and
could modify the HTTP requests and / or responses. - Local authentification
Mandaye provide a sql local authentification but you can also implement your own
local authentification. - Distant authentification
At the moment Mandaye only support form replay for a distant authentification but we will provide
SAML 2.0, OpenID and CAS support.
Installation¶
Dependencies¶
You must install the following packages to use Mandaye
- Python >= 2.5:: http://python.org/
- Setuptools >= 0.6:: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools
- Gunicorn >= 0.13:: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/gunicorn
- Poster >= 0.8:: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/poster/
- SQLAlchemy >= 0.7:: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/SQLAlchemy
- Beaker >= 1.6:: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Beaker
- Mako >= 0.4:: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Mako
- lxml >= 2.3:: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/lxml
You can install all those dependencies quickly using pip
pip install gevent poster SQLAlchemy Beaker Mako lxml gunicorn
or easy_install::
easy_install gevent poster SQLAlchemy Beaker Mako lxml gunicorn
or apt-get (Debian based distributions)::
apt-get install gunicorn python-poster python-sqlalchemy python-beaker python-mako python-lxml python-setuptools
It's recommended to install the following modules
- PyCrypto >= 2.3:: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pycrypto
- Static >= 0.4:: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/static
You can install this Python modules with pip
pip install pycrypto static
Quick installation¶
Install at least Python >=2.5 and setuptools or distribute and enter this command in a shell
$ python setup.py install
If you want to develop use this command line
$ python setup.py develop
Quick Start¶
Configure MANDAYE_PATH/mandaye/config.py with your own preferences.
You must configure the database uri and the log file.
First create your database
$ mandaye_admin.py --createdb
Launch mandaye server
$ mandaye_server.py
mandaye_server.py use gunicorn and gunicorn options (please read http://gunicorn.org/configure.html)
You could also use gunicorn.conf.py-sample (in the mandaye files)
$ mandaye_server.py -c PATH_TO_THE_FILE/gunicorn.conf.py
or
$ mandaye_server.py -c PATH_TO_THE_FILE/gunicorn.conf.py -b 0.0.0.0:4242