Sometimes I need to have a development version of a Sakai running with a real IP address on the real Internet. For example to run the IMS Learning Tools Interoperability certification I need to have my Sakai accept web service callbacks form the IMS server.<\/p>\n
One way to do it is to run an Amazon EC2 instance but this is a pain. I need to login a bunch of times to get all the windows I want and I cannot use any desktop apps. And I need a big EC2 instance and need to install a bunch of stuff – yada yada – and I have all that stuff already on my desktop.<\/p>\n
So here is the procedure.<\/p>\n
First make the smallest possible Amazon EC2 Instance. Make sure to open port 8080 on your instance. Log in to the instance and edit the sshd configuration file:<\/p>\n
Add or uncomment a line that says this:<\/p>\n Then restart sshd<\/p>\n Then log out of the server and set up your SSH tunnel:<\/p>\n Active Internet connections (only servers) In Sakai, you add the following to your sakai.properties:<\/p>\n And viola – everything is running on your laptop but the server is on the internet with a real address.<\/p>\nsudo vi \/etc\/ssh\/sshd_config <\/code><\/p>\nGatewayPorts yes<\/code><\/p>\nsudo \/etc\/init.d\/ssh restart<\/code><\/p>\n ssh -i .ssh\/zzz.pem -R 8080:localhost:8080 ubuntu@ec2-23-22-200-200.compute-1.amazonaws.com
\n<\/code>
\nYou can double check that your server is accepting connections from the outside world:<\/p>\nnetstat -ntl<\/p>\n
\nProto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
\ntcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:3306 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
\ntcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:8080 0.0.0.0:*<\/b> LISTEN
\ntcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
\ntcp6 0 0 :::22 :::* LISTEN<\/code><\/p>\nserverUrl=http:\/\/ec2-23-22-200-200.compute-1.amazonaws.com:8080
\n<\/code>
\nOnce your Sakai is up you should be able to navigate to<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/ec2-23-22-200-200.compute-1.amazonaws.com:8080\/portal<\/code><\/p>\n