yarn start source / destination address when opening firewall

[Lewatle Johannes Phaladi]

Dear DSpace Colleagues,

Please assist installation is not continuing when running yarn start 

I am requesting our central ICT to open port 4000 they want to know source and destination IP/address before opening the rule, what can I grant them as IP address for destination server

Please see screenshot where installation pause, any suggested solution is appreciated, this happen when installing frontend :

[Lewatle Johannes Phaladi]

Also please see attachment 

[Tim Donohue]

Hi,

Unfortunately, I don't think this is a question we can help answer.  The IP of your DSpace site depends on the IP of your server.  DSpace doesn't control the IP at all, rather the IP address is decided by your server's OS & networking setup (and the DNS it is using).  You may want to ask your central IT for help determining your IP address if you are not certain how to determine it from your operating system.

If you have further questions let us know on this list.

Good luck,

Tim

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[Lewatle Johannes Phaladi]

Hi Tim,

I might have not asked question in a clear way, there is IP address on the server that is running DSpace, I want to know when running 

$yarn start  

when upgrading dspace to version 7, looking at attached screenshot send yesterday, http://localhost:4000 is it new service that DSpace is going to run and for installation to continue do we need to open port 4000 since $yarn start doesn't move on the line where it says : 

  

Question can be what do I have to do for $yarn start to continue without hanging, if port 4000 need to be opened. For firewall rule to be set it will be required to know who or which service URL or IP  will be using port 4000, that is external service/users/website  if is users then Internet can be the source/destination instead of mentioning IP address, if it is downloading or connecting to the website then website address can be the source/destination. 

 

Regards,

Lewatle 

[Tim Donohue]

Hi,

What port you want to open depends on how you want to run the User Interface.  If you are running a non-Production instance, using "yarn start" is OK, and then yes​ it's going to use port 4000 by default.  However, for Production installs, we recommend using a process manager like PM2 to help manage the UI process, and you may want to proxy that through Apache so that you can use HTTPS (port 443).  See https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC7x/Installing+DSpace#InstallingDSpace-InstallingtheFrontend(UserInterface)

So, in Production instances, I'd highly recommend using HTTPS + port 443 (i.e. proxy behind Apache).  Otherwise, you are welcome to use port 4000 if you wish.

(Keep in mind, even if you setup a proxy via HTTPS + port 443, the UI process technically will run on localhost on port 4000...however, in that scenario port 4000 does NOT need to be open to the world, only port 443 would need to be opened).

Hopefully that helps more, but let us know on this list if you have further questions.

Tim

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[Lewatle Johannes Phaladi]

Hi Tim,

Thanks a lot we managed to sort it out now. Any new errors I have logged separately as the installation proceed.

Regards,

Lewatle