Sam Pierson's Blog

Here is how I setup my internet accessible CruiseControl.rb server and password protected it, using apache on MacOS.

As I use Git for VCS so I installed the version from GitHub that supports it. This appears to be the most actively developed version as far as I can tell.

After cloning it to ~/cruisecontrol.rb I wrote a startup script for the server that gets it to bind only to interface 127.0.0.1. The key is the –binding option:

#!/bin/bash
cd ~/cruisecontrol.rb
./cruise start --binding=127.0.0.1 --port=3333 --daemon

Then I setup an apache virtual server with a reverse proxy for / to localhost:3333, and set it to be password protected:

  ...
  ProxyPass / balancer://balancer-group/
  ProxyPassReverse / balancer://balancer-group/
  <Proxy "balancer://balancer-group">
    BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:3333 loadfactor=100
    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "cc.sampierson.net private"
    Require user sam
  </Proxy>
  ...

MacOS Apache integrates AuthType Basic with its own authorization system so you don’t need to tell it about an htpasswd file.